Some final (I hope) remarks on the topic of how Google searches are restricted by country.
The reason I have had so many entries on Google recently is because some German sites pointed out that we could no longer access the US google.com in Germany (and I suspect thats still true but am not sure) and they were writing about it only in German. I put it there in English in case anyone wanted to read that.
Further information on the bizarrely high number of results for santa cruz (no inverted commas): 270,000-odd results in Germany, over 2 million in the USA (of course, we discovered that only 998 results are ever really shown), 220,000 in France, according to a colleague in France, who adds:
My brother in Lusaka, Zambia, gets 2.6 + million hits, and so does a nephew in India and a friend in Taiwan.
And a colleague in the UK got 2.63 m for Santa Cruz and 2.49 m. for Santa Cruz!
I have not investigated whether the capital letters make any difference. Continue reading →