Does the Search Algorithm vary considerably locally?
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Hey,
i am from india and I just noticed that most of our searches are extremely different to those from the gooogle.com searches.
Not some searches. I mean entire layouts. For instance, there were no google places in the search results in India. There was hardly any integration with the G+ for a long time after it launched, even though a large population on G+ was Indian.
I got thinking on these lines. Any pointers?
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Hi Rahul,
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Google Places results normally comes in search when your search term has location name.
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If the author has implemented author profile with website then only you will see Google author image in search results.
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Its obvious you will see different result in Google.com and Google.co.in
May I know the search term you have searched and from which location ?
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