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Old 07-19-2006, 01:12 PM
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Originally Posted by Novice Investing
Sorry. I'm a newbie. How did the search engine know the IP location of a web address? If a .in domain is hosted in the UK, does that constitute as a UK IP location or....?
You can do a whois record search to find the IP location. http://whois.domaintools.com/

The country domain extenstion is another factor that the algo could take into consideration when weighing backlinks.
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