Google Tests Dropping Off Country Specific Search?

Jun 29, 2009 at 12:59pm ET by Barry Schwartz

The SEO Home blog has noticed that Google UK is now testing removing the radio button to only show “pages from the UK.” If you visit google.co.uk you may notice the radio button, but some are noticing that the radio button for that country specific option is now missing.

Google UK With the Country Specific Filter:

Google UK without the Country Specific Filter:

Gabs from SEO Home only sees Google UK lacking the radio button when using Google Chrome. When he searches on Google Chrome, he still can get to the filter, but only after he searches and only after he scrolls to the bottom of the search results and clicks on the link that reads “Show only results for United Kingdom.”

Gabs specifically does not like the new way Google is testing this. He feels that searchers should have the option right from the beginning of the search. I don’t know if Google agrees.

Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.

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ONE COMMENT ON Google Tests Dropping Off Country Specific Search?

nickstamoulis, June 30th, 2009 at 2:27 pm ET:
Premium member since 06/2009

So does this mean that Google UK (and others) are only showing country .co.uk search results?

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