Does G treat .de and .com the same

[thecat]

Does G treat .de /other country extensions and .com the same when it comes to search results on google.com. Is it just a question of seo?

E.G.

booksforsale.com
booksforsale.de

thanks

the cat

[stymiee]

The only time a domain extension can affect your ranking is if the search is based by country. The country-specific TLDs (e.g. .co.uk) will have priority over non-country specific TLDs (e.g. .com or .net).

[seiretto]

Depends on where your customer base is envisaged to be!
Germany or anywhere?

And remember country specific search results are affected by your host location, stick to your native country for hosting: http://uk-web-hosting-why.blogspot.c...google_09.html
to ensure your pages appear in the country specific results.

[andyf]

Google treat ccTLD and TLD differently, There are great chances of ranking high for a country specific TLD compare to .com as you don’t have to face much competition, but you would be restricted for that country only ....
If you want traffic from specific country then you can go with that country-specific TLD.

[thecat]

thanks for your replies,

i've been having a surf and can see that they are treated differently on results, though it seems that .com's rank frequently higher than country domains. If they do, then why would this be?
Could it be .com's are thought more as authority sites than niche therefore rank higher?