Strange things in Google

[ChrisW]

I have recently noticed some strange things in google with my site.

My site is a .com that is hosted in Australia, so when you do an Australian only search in Google my site would appear in the results.

When I did a search on "www.google.com.au" search "the web" for "boats for sale" my site "www.gotboats4sale.com" was on page one.

When I did a search on "www.google.com.au" search "pages from Australia" for "boats for sale" my site "www.gotboats4sale.com" was also on page one.

NOW When I do a search on "www.google.com.au" search "pages from Australia" for "boats for sale" my site "www.gotboats4sale.com" is on page 4, but the "the web" search remains the same.

Also when I do a site search on Google Aus for my site "site:www.gotboats4sale.com" I get "www.gotboats4sale.com/" for search "the web"
and "www.gotboats4sale.com/DEFAULT.ASP" for "pages from Australia"

I don't use upper case anywhere on my site.

Does anyone have any ideas or theories?

[dburdon]

ChrisW,

a similar thing is happening with Google.co.uk.

Several UK hosted dot.coms - both ones I manage and competitors - are being downgraded from page 1s to page 3 and 4s.

They're still there in results. Unlike a foreign hosted dot.com.