Re: Google.com and Google.ca
This is slightly off topic, but it may explain some things in the process.
I'm a netepreneur, & I only realized last year that the SEs & some classified sites are NOW controlling our searches.
We no longer have the option of where to search & this is terrible.
I now have to get someone in the US to search for me every time I need US results, as 95% of my clients are in the US, so that's pretty well 98% of the time unless I'm looking for personal things I need to buy.
I wrote to Google & they didn't care saying there is no other option.
IMO it doesn't matter if you use .com or .ca or which radio button you click on, although there might be a slight difference.
The ONLY results I get are from Canada, & anyone who knows anything about Canada knows CND business owners suck when it comes to the net.
I end up getting UK results b4 I get US results. I think I even got AU results the other day & while I deal w/ the UK some of the time, normally I don't since they are too expensive for me. I never really deal with AU.
It's been very upsetting to me & no one seems to give a damm.
Even those classified sites refuse to let me post in .com b/c they are reading my IP address.
Long gone are the days when the Internet erased all lines in the sand & allowed us to do biz worldwide. We are NOW being controlled by the SEs & classified sites, being told where we can search & post to. I really feel like we are being held hostage here.
Anyone want to start a petition? I'm sure I'm only one of a few who cares about this (that I know of) since while there are a few netrepreneurs from Canada out there, hardly any are visible, so I have no idea what they do, maybe they only have CND clients, who knows.
Thanks
Michelle
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