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Search as a Local Shopping Portal

by jenndox on 3/27/11, 5:33 PM with 2 comments

• by zeynel1 on 3/27/11, 6:00 PM

  "This is an Irish company with little reach beyond Ireland and Great Brittan, so I expected to see reviews from either of the countries they supply. Instead I get American naval-gazers who haven’t ever seen or tried the stuff pontificating on web forums about how they would never touch a thing they don’t understand."

  Is this because there were no discussions in Ireland about your search subject; or is it because Google indexed only US discussions?

  By the way the first result in Google is from Ireland: http://www.google.com/search?aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie...