Google UK Shopping Displaying US Results?

Sep 28, 2011 - 8:31 am 8 by
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Google Products UKThere are recent complaints at WebmasterWorld that Google Shopping / Product Search in the UK is showing way too many U.S. based stores.

One Google Merchant said:

I'm seeing this more and more recently. If I do a search for something (I'm based in the UK and using google.co.uk searching 'the web' rather than just UK results), I used to see primarily UK-based results - especially if the search was product/shopping based.

Now I'm seeing lots of US sites in the results, and as a user it's very frustrating.

From a webmaster's point of view it's also highly frustrating. The question is if this is a temporary situation or if Google has truly lost the plot in terms of some of the results it's showing.

Many other webmasters confirmed seeing the same issue. I personally cannot replicate the issue, but maybe that is because either it is fixed or I am searching on the wrong words?

Do you find this to be an issue?

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.

 

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