Google Thinks Google UK & Preston Lodge High School Are The Same?

Go to Google and search for [google.co.uk], Google’s UK home page. Google will return a knowledge graph result for Preston Lodge High School. What does Preston Lodge High School and Google UK have to do with each other? I am not sure. Searching Google for [google.com] does not return the same high school. In fact, […]

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Go to Google and search for [google.co.uk], Google’s UK home page. Google will return a knowledge graph result for Preston Lodge High School. What does Preston Lodge High School and Google UK have to do with each other? I am not sure.

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Searching Google for [google.com] does not return the same high school. In fact, it returns what you might expect, it returns the Google Google+ page.

Why is a search for google.co.uk returning Preston Lodge High School’s Wikipedia result in the Google Knowledge graph box? I cannot figure it out.

Hat tip to @Nick_Boyle


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Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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