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    Question Do you search with Google Finland or Google England/US?

    When you use Google, do you use Google in Finnish (google.fi) or Google in English (e.g. google.com) since the results are different?

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    Default Re: Do you search with Google Finland or Google England/US?

    Not very often. Just when I'm trying to find a lot of info about Finland.

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    Default Re: Do you search with Google Finland or Google England/US?

    I tend to use google.fi but il also sometimes use google.com
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    Default Re: Do you search with Google Finland or Google England/US?

    If I need to find things in Danish I have to use something else than .fi otherwise I only get Swedish results

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    Default Re: Do you search with Google Finland or Google England/US?

    Are you sure that it gives different results? I believe that Google looks at the standard language of your computer instead of which domain you use. The algorithm behind the search engine is the same for each domain they have. If you want I can explain it to you in a short way.

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    Default Re: Do you search with Google Finland or Google England/US?

    How about different domains e.g. if I have a .fi Domain will it has priority in the search results compared to e.g. .uk Domain?

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    Default Re: Do you search with Google Finland or Google England/US?

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    How about different domains e.g. if I have a .fi Domain will it has priority in the search results compared to e.g. .uk Domain?
    No it wouldn't have priority, domain is not important as whole domain name,content,backlinks and other seo factors.There are some advantages with an domains. My suggestion is that you use .fi if you are going to make something for Finnish visitors

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    Default Re: Do you search with Google Finland or Google England/US?

    Yes, I'm sure. Problem is that if I use .fi or .com and google knows I am in Finland, it thinks that my dinish word is a swedish ord just misspelled because the too languages are similery - I suppose the same would happen for Finns in Estonia etc.

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    Default Re: Do you search with Google Finland or Google England/US?

    Here in Croatia,Serbia and Bosnia we have same problem cos we have same and similar words then we show up in each other results.

    Following things would help you with this problem.
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    <meta http-equiv="content-language" content="fi , da">>
    its punting between <head></head>

    also adding meta keywords would help too.
    Code:
    <meta name="description" content="site description." />
    <meta name="keywords" content="words and whole phrases for what you want that google index your page." />
     />

    If you are going to use .com and want to target it for an country that you can do using google webmaster tools and add website there and do what it requires and set that Geographic target Denmark example

    maybe you know all this things maybe not but I'm just trying to help

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