A British company, its .com website hosted in Germany and Google

I spoke to a company this week which was having problems getting its site listed on Google for the search 'pages from the UK', even though the site was listed on Google.com. Frustrated at this the owner decided to contact Google and was told by them that only sites hosted in the UK could display the search results 'pages from UK'. He then decided to contact his hosting company, a large well-known, and he thought British, company who informed him that, yes, his site was hosted in Germany. It turns out that though he paid in pounds, the company is actually German.

And Google's advice to him on how to get listed on the UK country-restricted search - get your site hosted in the UK. You may be interested to look at some similar experiences of users on this search engine forum:

Get listed under google uk

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Geting sites listed in reginal search engines is geting really difficult. Most search engines as said go by where the site is actaully hosted. I think this is not a very good practise. Reginal search engines should list websites in reginal section based on requests or verification, instead of asking to chage hosting.