WebmasterWorld administrator, engine, feels Bing has upped the weighting of local domains and how well they rank in the localized version of Bing search. He posted this at WebmasterWorld saying:
When using bing uk i'm noticing uk domains getting prominence over generally better ranked and better linked .com, despite being hosted in the uk.
So I used my umbrella query and tested Bing US vs Bing UK and I saw the same thing. Here are those results:
| Bing US | Bing UK |
|---|---|
| umbrellas.com | wikipedia.org |
| umbrellas.net | simplyumbrellas.co.uk |
| totes-isotoner.com | umbrellaheaven.com |
| umbrellas-source.com | brolliesgalore.co.uk |
| wikipedia.org | discardedumbrellas.com |
| strombergbrand.com | umbrellaworld.co.uk |
| mjjsales.com | umbrellas.net |
| peerlessumbrella.com | allgoodideas.co.uk |
| target.com | fultonumbrellas.com |
| amazon.com | easy-umbrella.co.uk |
Have you noticed this?
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