Thanks again to all for the input. For the record and future searches on this, my experience is with Swiss .ch sites, .com and Swiss and UK hosting, which is as follows:
Google rates the domain extension
not where the site is hosted. Thus a search for - playgroup adliswil - in
google.ch will get
www.mctots.ch as #1 of 9(!).
This site is hosted in the UK.. It also appears in google.
com for the same search.
BUT
Search for - Swiss DVD rental - in google
.ch and
www.SwissDVDrental.com is not there - despite being hosted in Switzerland. But it does appear in Google.
com - as #1
ALSO
mctots.ch is in German & English, but Swissdvdrental.com is only in English. So another site that is only in German, with a .ch TLD and hosted in the UK. A search for - Kirchgemeinden orchester Stadt Zürich - in google
.ch get kgo.ch #1 and google
.com
Conclusions?
I'm confused! Seems to me that the domain is important to get into google
.ch NOT where it is hosted. However there are quite a number of .com TLD sites in google.ch...
Would I be right is saying that google.com.au and google.ch do not work on the same algorithm??