So essentially this guy is building this site, ranking it in Google using the churn 'n Burn method, then once its ranking well he'll contact local business saying he can link to them in return for a fee.
Even though the domain is 6 months old, if you look at ahrefs this guy has 33k backlinks to the homepage. Google had a major SEO update on October 4th which essentially fucked up their algorithm more than it already was. This churn 'n burn method means that you spam out a zillion backlinks and you will rank really well until the next Google update comes along (which is around 3-4 months) You could do this in the previous Google update (Penguin 2.1) and I thought Google would fix this but they just made it easier. This is a good example of the method: http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/black-hat-seo/5769... (This was the one of the guys that essentially figured out this method from what I can tell)
So with this new Google update, they are getting rid of some of the spammy sites, but more spam sites just taken their places in the rankings. Now they are focusing on the amount of content on your site rather than the backlinks. So now 10 year old sites with hundreds of legitimate, high authority backlinks are getting outranked but spammy sites with 14 backlinks and 300 gibberish articles.
I've also been reading that with local Google searches, you get results from completely different countries. For example, people in the UK were reporting that they were getting results from sites in Russia, Argentina and New Zealand instead of UK results. I don't think this happens as much in America from what I know.
So I'm guessing Google is eventually going to iron out these problems, but it's a battleground at the moment.
If you do get outranked by this guy, make a video with your keywords in the title, same with a Facebook and LinkedIn page and then buy a bunch of backlinks off Fiverr. They should outrank pretty much any other website in a matter of days."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"What the SEO? \u2013 The shady world of small business SEO"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"http://dangoldin.com/2013/10/20/what-the-seo/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_Matsta","story_6580817"],"author":"Matsta","children":[6582934,6586569],"comment_text":"Ok, this guy is using a couple of methods off BlackHatWorld (Probably the biggest SEO forum around if you haven't heard of it)
So essentially this guy is building this site, ranking it in Google using the churn 'n Burn method, then once its ranking well he'll contact local business saying he can link to them in return for a fee.
Even though the domain is 6 months old, if you look at ahrefs this guy has 33k backlinks to the homepage. Google had a major SEO update on October 4th which essentially fucked up their algorithm more than it already was. This churn 'n burn method means that you spam out a zillion backlinks and you will rank really well until the next Google update comes along (which is around 3-4 months) You could do this in the previous Google update (Penguin 2.1) and I thought Google would fix this but they just made it easier. This is a good example of the method: http://www.blackhatworld.com/blackhat-seo/black-hat-seo/5769... (This was the one of the guys that essentially figured out this method from what I can tell)
So with this new Google update, they are getting rid of some of the spammy sites, but more spam sites just taken their places in the rankings. Now they are focusing on the amount of content on your site rather than the backlinks. So now 10 year old sites with hundreds of legitimate, high authority backlinks are getting outranked but spammy sites with 14 backlinks and 300 gibberish articles.
I've also been reading that with local Google searches, you get results from completely different countries. For example, people in the UK were reporting that they were getting results from sites in Russia, Argentina and New Zealand instead of UK results. I don't think this happens as much in America from what I know.
So I'm guessing Google is eventually going to iron out these problems, but it's a battleground at the moment.
If you do get outranked by this guy, make a video with your keywords in the title, same with a Facebook and LinkedIn page and then buy a bunch of backlinks off Fiverr. They should outrank pretty much any other website in a matter of days.","created_at":"2013-10-20T22:29:02Z","created_at_i":1382308142,"objectID":"6581816","parent_id":6580817,"points":null,"story_id":6580817,"story_title":"What the SEO? \u2013 The shady world of small business SEO","story_url":"http://dangoldin.com/2013/10/20/what-the-seo/","updated_at":"2023-09-06T22:28:10Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"thanhhaimai"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","search","results","different","country"],"value":"Banning anything is often not a good policy since it usually creates secondary markets.
Depends on how you count the date, this could create markets where people in different countries will sell Google search results to each other. New VPN providers pop up with the promise of 24h Google coverage. Software startups switch to a system where you bing work 16 hours straight, then get the next 32 hours break and repeat. "Breaking news" has a new Oxford definition, since newspapers change plan to publish news 5 minutes before Google opens for search. Electricity price increases for the first 2 hours of the odd-numbered day to combat the spike in demand. Comcast introduces a new fast lane at only $199 a month that has no slow down access to Google. University groups lobby for a new exemption in the law allowing unrestricted weekdays access. Political parties lobby for also blocking Google on the day of debates, regardless of whether it's an odd-numbered day. It's kinda fun to keep going."},"story_title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["google","search"],"value":"To Break Google\u2019s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public"},"story_url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["google","search"],"value":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-15/to-break-google-s-monopoly-on-search-make-its-index-public"}},"_tags":["comment","author_thanhhaimai","story_20440079"],"author":"thanhhaimai","comment_text":"Banning anything is often not a good policy since it usually creates secondary markets.
Depends on how you count the date, this could create markets where people in different countries will sell Google search results to each other. New VPN providers pop up with the promise of 24h Google coverage. Software startups switch to a system where you bing work 16 hours straight, then get the next 32 hours break and repeat. "Breaking news" has a new Oxford definition, since newspapers change plan to publish news 5 minutes before Google opens for search. Electricity price increases for the first 2 hours of the odd-numbered day to combat the spike in demand. Comcast introduces a new fast lane at only $199 a month that has no slow down access to Google. University groups lobby for a new exemption in the law allowing unrestricted weekdays access. Political parties lobby for also blocking Google on the day of debates, regardless of whether it's an odd-numbered day. It's kinda fun to keep going.","created_at":"2019-07-16T01:50:05Z","created_at_i":1563241805,"objectID":"20446872","parent_id":20446730,"story_id":20440079,"story_title":"To Break Google\u2019s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public","story_url":"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-07-15/to-break-google-s-monopoly-on-search-make-its-index-public","updated_at":"2025-01-29T16:18:23Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Winterflow3r"},"story_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","search","results","different","country"],"value":"More and more often when I search (using text queries, not image search, which I know has been polluted by Pinterest for years), I get pages upon pages of Pinterest results, sometimes the same Pinterest page but from the different pinterest country domains like pinterest.fi for Finland and pinterest.se for Sweden. Does anyone know if Google gives Pinterest preferential treatement in SEO rankings?
Edit: A few comments were asking what my queries were to generate search results where Pinterest dominates, so clarifying that a bit. I run a site that has a colour search engine for lipsticks and since Google is one of the dominant ways in which people land on my site (searching for things like "nyx budapest lipstick dupes"), I was studying various makeup related queries to see which sites ranked highest .
Edit2: Edited the title for clarity - I mean text search, not image search"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["google","search","results"],"value":"Ask HN: Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search results?"}},"_tags":["story","author_Winterflow3r","story_25538586","ask_hn"],"author":"Winterflow3r","children":[25538648,25538650,25538651,25538664,25538665,25538668,25538669,25538694,25538705,25538737,25538748,25538763,25538814,25538871,25538894,25538925,25538947,25538962,25538971,25538987,25539007,25539078,25539105,25539107,25539110,25539121,25539173,25539245,25539263,25539274,25539289,25539346,25539434,25539453,25539500,25539540,25539641,25539674,25539985,25540011,25540064,25540113,25540161,25540422,25540648,25540676,25541156,25541244,25541334,25541371,25541817,25541991,25542029,25542399,25543714,25553033,25592191,25684443],"created_at":"2020-12-25T19:52:25Z","created_at_i":1608925945,"num_comments":312,"objectID":"25538586","points":689,"story_id":25538586,"story_text":"More and more often when I search (using text queries, not image search, which I know has been polluted by Pinterest for years), I get pages upon pages of Pinterest results, sometimes the same Pinterest page but from the different pinterest country domains like pinterest.fi for Finland and pinterest.se for Sweden. Does anyone know if Google gives Pinterest preferential treatement in SEO rankings?
Edit: A few comments were asking what my queries were to generate search results where Pinterest dominates, so clarifying that a bit. I run a site that has a colour search engine for lipsticks and since Google is one of the dominant ways in which people land on my site (searching for things like "nyx budapest lipstick dupes"), I was studying various makeup related queries to see which sites ranked highest .
Edit2: Edited the title for clarity - I mean text search, not image search","title":"Ask HN: Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search results?","updated_at":"2026-01-17T00:02:18Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"thefreeman"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","search","results","different","country"],"value":"It sounds like it could be legal? I know different countries have different agreements / restrictions with google about search results."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Accept my accept-language"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"http://blog.choibean.com/2014/03/accept-my-accept-language.html"}},"_tags":["comment","author_thefreeman","story_7408102"],"author":"thefreeman","comment_text":"It sounds like it could be legal? I know different countries have different agreements / restrictions with google about search results.","created_at":"2014-03-16T12:36:15Z","created_at_i":1394973375,"objectID":"7409212","parent_id":7409175,"story_id":7408102,"story_title":"Accept my accept-language","story_url":"http://blog.choibean.com/2014/03/accept-my-accept-language.html","updated_at":"2024-09-19T20:31:26Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"masswebsite"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","search","results","different","country"],"value":"This tool simulate Google search results from different locations and devices that how you can see changes in website rankings and SERP Ads ranking according to user location and device.
It allows you to select device, language, country, city, and other custom search settings and show Google SERP results based on selected parameters.\nIt is helpful for performing Google search as if you were somewhere else without any proxies or VPN.\nThis tool can be useful for SEO and internet marketing companies in order to preview Adwords Ads and track their marketing campaigns using different locations and devices."},"story_title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["google","search","results"],"value":"Localize Google Search Results Checker"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.isearch.global/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_masswebsite","story_33886068"],"author":"masswebsite","comment_text":"This tool simulate Google search results from different locations and devices that how you can see changes in website rankings and SERP Ads ranking according to user location and device.
It allows you to select device, language, country, city, and other custom search settings and show Google SERP results based on selected parameters.\nIt is helpful for performing Google search as if you were somewhere else without any proxies or VPN.\nThis tool can be useful for SEO and internet marketing companies in order to preview Adwords Ads and track their marketing campaigns using different locations and devices.","created_at":"2022-12-06T19:52:58Z","created_at_i":1670356378,"objectID":"33886069","parent_id":33886068,"story_id":33886068,"story_title":"Localize Google Search Results Checker","story_url":"https://www.isearch.global/","updated_at":"2024-09-20T12:43:54Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"blondin"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","search","results","different","country"],"value":"feel like we discussed this here before and it was a different country (france?)
so the issues is using content in google news or in snippets shown in google search results. i commented before that i seldom leave news or the main search anymore because of these snippets.
why isn't it fair that the ads revenue is shared with these news publishers if their content is taken?"},"story_title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["google"],"value":"Facebook, Google to be forced to share ad revenue with Australian media"},"story_url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["google"],"value":"https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/apr/19/facebook-and-google-to-be-forced-to-share-advertising-revenue-with-australian-media-companies"}},"_tags":["comment","author_blondin","story_22917941"],"author":"blondin","children":[22919705,22920043],"comment_text":"feel like we discussed this here before and it was a different country (france?)
so the issues is using content in google news or in snippets shown in google search results. i commented before that i seldom leave news or the main search anymore because of these snippets.
why isn't it fair that the ads revenue is shared with these news publishers if their content is taken?","created_at":"2020-04-19T21:59:03Z","created_at_i":1587333543,"objectID":"22919138","parent_id":22918862,"story_id":22917941,"story_title":"Facebook, Google to be forced to share ad revenue with Australian media","story_url":"https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/apr/19/facebook-and-google-to-be-forced-to-share-advertising-revenue-with-australian-media-companies","updated_at":"2024-09-20T06:00:10Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"dependenttypes"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","search","results","different","country"],"value":"I really hate the whole non-determinism in sites. First we have A/B testing, then we have google search showing different results depending on what computer/account/country of the ip address you are using, youtube showing different recommended videos (rather than basing it on the current video), etc.
It would be great if instead they had a deterministic way of looking at it. For example give an easy way to anyone to select a different "perception" for the map borders."},"story_title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["google"],"value":"Google redraws the borders on maps depending on who\u2019s looking"},"story_url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["google"],"value":"https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/02/14/google-maps-political-borders/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_dependenttypes","story_22337193"],"author":"dependenttypes","children":[22339959],"comment_text":"I really hate the whole non-determinism in sites. First we have A/B testing, then we have google search showing different results depending on what computer/account/country of the ip address you are using, youtube showing different recommended videos (rather than basing it on the current video), etc.
It would be great if instead they had a deterministic way of looking at it. For example give an easy way to anyone to select a different "perception" for the map borders.","created_at":"2020-02-15T21:36:30Z","created_at_i":1581802590,"objectID":"22338160","parent_id":22337193,"story_id":22337193,"story_title":"Google redraws the borders on maps depending on who\u2019s looking","story_url":"https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/02/14/google-maps-political-borders/","updated_at":"2024-09-20T05:40:37Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"lnguyen"},"title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["google","search","different","country"],"value":"Google no longer lets you change domains to search different countries"},"url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["google","search","results"],"value":"https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/27/16561848/google-search-always-local-results-ignores-domain"}},"_tags":["story","author_lnguyen","story_15572587"],"author":"lnguyen","children":[15572705,15572907,15572908,15572965,15573000,15573127,15573230,15573349,15573663,15574016,15574831],"created_at":"2017-10-27T22:06:01Z","created_at_i":1509141961,"num_comments":33,"objectID":"15572587","points":63,"story_id":15572587,"title":"Google no longer lets you change domains to search different countries","updated_at":"2024-09-20T01:33:44Z","url":"https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/27/16561848/google-search-always-local-results-ignores-domain"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"redleader55"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","search","results","different","country"],"value":"There are two situations that I hate:\n1. I have a different IP than usual, so all the sites change to that country - including language, news and search results(Google), etc, even though my browser sets a list of Accept-Language options. It's still me, I know you track me, so why?\n2. Changing a multi-language website to a different country, also changes the language to that country, even though by browser sends an Accept-Language header and they have the translations for the website from their other sites/countries. I don't suddenly start speaking a different language if I look at a your site from a different country."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Who uses Accept-Language header?"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://serpapi.com/blog/who-uses-accept-language-header/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_redleader55","story_41497139"],"author":"redleader55","children":[41500447,41500709,41500931,41501032,41501803],"comment_text":"There are two situations that I hate:\n1. I have a different IP than usual, so all the sites change to that country - including language, news and search results(Google), etc, even though my browser sets a list of Accept-Language options. It's still me, I know you track me, so why?\n2. Changing a multi-language website to a different country, also changes the language to that country, even though by browser sends an Accept-Language header and they have the translations for the website from their other sites/countries. I don't suddenly start speaking a different language if I look at a your site from a different country.","created_at":"2024-09-10T11:31:35Z","created_at_i":1725967895,"objectID":"41499700","parent_id":41497139,"story_id":41497139,"story_title":"Who uses Accept-Language header?","story_url":"https://serpapi.com/blog/who-uses-accept-language-header/","updated_at":"2024-09-20T17:49:58Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"DanBC"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","search","results","different","country"],"value":"Google is pretty good. Here are the things I find frustrating:
1) It tries to guess what I mean, and it's hard to make it change its mind. I was searching for a specific thing and Google decided I was looking for clothing brand in this colour. In the past adding or removing words, using the + (or "") or - operators would help, but I couldn't find the right combination this time.
2) Sometimes I want to search for results from a different country in a different language and I don't know how to do this. Google seems to really want to only push English language results to me. I don't know if /ncr is still a thing.
3) There's a bunch of heavily SEO'd content that's sort of okay but not great, and a bunch of content that's great but hidden.
4) Google really wants you to use natural language queries. So when you're fault-finding a problem you type a question into the search box. This will return many people asking that same question, but often they will not have got an answer. I don't need to be linked to a closed, with no answers, Stack exchange question, or a forum when OP says "never mind, fixed it" with no more details.
5) Google has decided to de-prioritise certain types of link. If you search for torrents Google has chosen to put other stuff in the first few pages. I think I'd prefer it if they just said "nope, we don't do those links" than what they do at the moment. Try searching for pirate versions of Pozner and Dodd's Cross-Examination Science and Techniques and you get a lot of links, but they're all terrible. They all lead to malware infested sites, or sites that are part of a weird complicated network that don't provide any content, but cause you to spend some time finding that out."},"story_title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["google","search"],"value":"Ask HN: What is the worst thing about Google search?"}},"_tags":["comment","author_DanBC","story_22978814"],"author":"DanBC","comment_text":"Google is pretty good. Here are the things I find frustrating:
1) It tries to guess what I mean, and it's hard to make it change its mind. I was searching for a specific thing and Google decided I was looking for clothing brand in this colour. In the past adding or removing words, using the + (or "") or - operators would help, but I couldn't find the right combination this time.
2) Sometimes I want to search for results from a different country in a different language and I don't know how to do this. Google seems to really want to only push English language results to me. I don't know if /ncr is still a thing.
3) There's a bunch of heavily SEO'd content that's sort of okay but not great, and a bunch of content that's great but hidden.
4) Google really wants you to use natural language queries. So when you're fault-finding a problem you type a question into the search box. This will return many people asking that same question, but often they will not have got an answer. I don't need to be linked to a closed, with no answers, Stack exchange question, or a forum when OP says "never mind, fixed it" with no more details.
5) Google has decided to de-prioritise certain types of link. If you search for torrents Google has chosen to put other stuff in the first few pages. I think I'd prefer it if they just said "nope, we don't do those links" than what they do at the moment. Try searching for pirate versions of Pozner and Dodd's Cross-Examination Science and Techniques and you get a lot of links, but they're all terrible. They all lead to malware infested sites, or sites that are part of a weird complicated network that don't provide any content, but cause you to spend some time finding that out.","created_at":"2020-04-26T10:28:16Z","created_at_i":1587896896,"objectID":"22986100","parent_id":22978814,"story_id":22978814,"story_title":"Ask HN: What is the worst thing about Google search?","updated_at":"2024-09-20T06:07:03Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"kulhavy"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","search","results","different","country"],"value":"Telescope comes with more details on the data - Keyword Difficulty, Historic Search Volume, Ability to preview google results for different countries, Keywords for your specific domains and your position.
Soon we'll have backlink data and it'll open up even more details on Keywords, SERP Preview, Domain Overview"},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Show HN: I\u2019ve made a cheaper SEO research tool"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://withtelescope.com"}},"_tags":["comment","author_kulhavy","story_40881836"],"author":"kulhavy","comment_text":"Telescope comes with more details on the data - Keyword Difficulty, Historic Search Volume, Ability to preview google results for different countries, Keywords for your specific domains and your position.
Soon we'll have backlink data and it'll open up even more details on Keywords, SERP Preview, Domain Overview","created_at":"2024-07-05T14:34:55Z","created_at_i":1720190095,"objectID":"40883157","parent_id":40883088,"story_id":40881836,"story_title":"Show HN: I\u2019ve made a cheaper SEO research tool","story_url":"https://withtelescope.com","updated_at":"2024-09-20T17:26:44Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"godelski"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","search","results","different","country"],"value":"> because you know damn well WWII is irrelevant to the question of current threats.
Well that was a sarcastic joke at the end. The US has not made any threats to Japan since after the bombing. The other countries listed are a different story though.
Russia: I think you have forgotten that the Kuril Islands are still contested territory between Japan and Russia. Russia's same policy is there that they will retaliate if their territories are "attacked." The exact same line with Ukraine. Putin has suggested he would take out Japan and (South) Korea quickly as they are the US's main launching points of an attack. Getting them out of the war quickly gives Russia a serious advantage and the US a serious disadvantage. This is ongoing and has been in discussion since the Cold War. Policies have not shifted on this. Russia has actively been violating international nuclear armament treaties and this has been big news since 2014. So, current.
China: Has been much more explicit and aggressive, stating that they will nuke Japan until they unconditionally surrender if they even send a single troop to defend Taiwan[1]. This video is 2021. They have also made similar threats to Australia after a deal with the US for nuclear powered subs (which would not have nuclear weapons) saying that any nuclear nation is not immune from nuclear attack.
North Korea: idk, last week when they launched their test missile directly over Japan?
I get that searching with respect to Russia might be difficult right now because everything is focused on Ukraine and Google overfits search results. But this has been in military discussion for decades. Maybe it is just saber rattling, but these are still things that have been said.
[1] https://twitter.com/jenniferzeng97/status/141497128516000563..."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Intel and the $1.5T chip industry meltdown"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://www.economist.com/business/2022/10/17/intel-and-the-15trn-chip-industry-meltdown"}},"_tags":["comment","author_godelski","story_33244767"],"author":"godelski","comment_text":"> because you know damn well WWII is irrelevant to the question of current threats.
Well that was a sarcastic joke at the end. The US has not made any threats to Japan since after the bombing. The other countries listed are a different story though.
Russia: I think you have forgotten that the Kuril Islands are still contested territory between Japan and Russia. Russia's same policy is there that they will retaliate if their territories are "attacked." The exact same line with Ukraine. Putin has suggested he would take out Japan and (South) Korea quickly as they are the US's main launching points of an attack. Getting them out of the war quickly gives Russia a serious advantage and the US a serious disadvantage. This is ongoing and has been in discussion since the Cold War. Policies have not shifted on this. Russia has actively been violating international nuclear armament treaties and this has been big news since 2014. So, current.
China: Has been much more explicit and aggressive, stating that they will nuke Japan until they unconditionally surrender if they even send a single troop to defend Taiwan[1]. This video is 2021. They have also made similar threats to Australia after a deal with the US for nuclear powered subs (which would not have nuclear weapons) saying that any nuclear nation is not immune from nuclear attack.
North Korea: idk, last week when they launched their test missile directly over Japan?
I get that searching with respect to Russia might be difficult right now because everything is focused on Ukraine and Google overfits search results. But this has been in military discussion for decades. Maybe it is just saber rattling, but these are still things that have been said.
[1] https://twitter.com/jenniferzeng97/status/141497128516000563...","created_at":"2022-10-19T00:31:13Z","created_at_i":1666139473,"objectID":"33255945","parent_id":33255139,"story_id":33244767,"story_title":"Intel and the $1.5T chip industry meltdown","story_url":"https://www.economist.com/business/2022/10/17/intel-and-the-15trn-chip-industry-meltdown","updated_at":"2024-09-20T12:17:20Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"przemoc"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","search","results","different","country"],"value":"Well, Google is known to be doing many evil things, like providing different results in different countries for same queries in same languages (and no, it's beyond personalization). They obviously have some agreements with govts and such to filter some content etc., so I wouldn't be surprised if there was much more to it.
Despite all these left-handed actions, Google is still the best search engine and it rather won't change in upcoming future. The thing is while I criticize Google, I still use their search engine daily, gmail, reader, etc., because after all they have really useful products."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"The + operator has been replaced."},"story_url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["google","search"],"value":"http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=1280&bih=869&q=hacker+%2Bnews&oq=hacker+%2Bnews&aq=f&aqi=&aql=1&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=924l3214l0l3294l15l10l1l1l0l1l167l921l1.6l8l0"}},"_tags":["comment","author_przemoc","story_3140797"],"author":"przemoc","comment_text":"Well, Google is known to be doing many evil things, like providing different results in different countries for same queries in same languages (and no, it's beyond personalization). They obviously have some agreements with govts and such to filter some content etc., so I wouldn't be surprised if there was much more to it.
Despite all these left-handed actions, Google is still the best search engine and it rather won't change in upcoming future. The thing is while I criticize Google, I still use their search engine daily, gmail, reader, etc., because after all they have really useful products.","created_at":"2011-10-21T22:29:27Z","created_at_i":1319236167,"objectID":"3142003","parent_id":3141963,"points":null,"story_id":3140797,"story_title":"The + operator has been replaced.","story_url":"http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=1280&bih=869&q=hacker+%2Bnews&oq=hacker+%2Bnews&aq=f&aqi=&aql=1&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=924l3214l0l3294l15l10l1l1l0l1l167l921l1.6l8l0","updated_at":"2023-09-06T20:31:42Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"makomk"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","search","results","different","country"],"value":"Also, it depends on what country Google have geo-located you as being in and not on what country's Google page you're searching from; non-Americans get completely different search results on Google.com from Americans."},"story_title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["google","search","results"],"value":" Google breaks 2005 promise never to show banner ads on search results"},"story_url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["google","search","results"],"value":"http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/24/google-breaks-promise-banner-ads-search-results"}},"_tags":["comment","author_makomk","story_6605312"],"author":"makomk","comment_text":"Also, it depends on what country Google have geo-located you as being in and not on what country's Google page you're searching from; non-Americans get completely different search results on Google.com from Americans.","created_at":"2013-10-24T18:19:26Z","created_at_i":1382638766,"objectID":"6606914","parent_id":6605683,"story_id":6605312,"story_title":" Google breaks 2005 promise never to show banner ads on search results","story_url":"http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/24/google-breaks-promise-banner-ads-search-results","updated_at":"2024-09-19T20:08:19Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"riggsdk"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","search","results","different","country"],"value":"Google has really turned "bad" over the last years. Whenever I search for anything I immediately get thrown a ton of shopping websites in my face as if my default mindset is "buy more crap". Google has more and more turned into "where to buy" instead of "where to find information".\nSearching for information on "Vienna"? Here are 200+ hotels you can book! It's like a game how to formulate your queries to avoid the most annoying results.
Pinterest is a cancer in the Google search results. I hate having to surgically add 10 different pinterest exclusion terms (from various countries) to my search query.
I wonder when a hybrid "wikipedia-of-search" solution arises.
I'm envisioning distributed clusters of specialized indexes for various topics. For example some enthusiasts crawl and curate tonnes of cooking websites, others technical and what have you not. Anyone with somewhat beefy servers can then make a search engine by subscribing to these indexes (bittorrent-like manner?) and pick and choose what they want included.\nA whole ecosystem of information indexing would pop up and we'd see blocklists (AdBlock of search) and craplists. I'm sure Pinterest would end up on one or two of those lists."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Blocking Pinterest may reduce your data usage"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://ruky.me/2021/01/05/you-might-want-to-block-pinterest-to-save-your-data/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_riggsdk","story_25642392"],"author":"riggsdk","comment_text":"Google has really turned "bad" over the last years. Whenever I search for anything I immediately get thrown a ton of shopping websites in my face as if my default mindset is "buy more crap". Google has more and more turned into "where to buy" instead of "where to find information".\nSearching for information on "Vienna"? Here are 200+ hotels you can book! It's like a game how to formulate your queries to avoid the most annoying results.
Pinterest is a cancer in the Google search results. I hate having to surgically add 10 different pinterest exclusion terms (from various countries) to my search query.
I wonder when a hybrid "wikipedia-of-search" solution arises.
I'm envisioning distributed clusters of specialized indexes for various topics. For example some enthusiasts crawl and curate tonnes of cooking websites, others technical and what have you not. Anyone with somewhat beefy servers can then make a search engine by subscribing to these indexes (bittorrent-like manner?) and pick and choose what they want included.\nA whole ecosystem of information indexing would pop up and we'd see blocklists (AdBlock of search) and craplists. I'm sure Pinterest would end up on one or two of those lists.","created_at":"2021-01-05T09:06:13Z","created_at_i":1609837573,"objectID":"25643618","parent_id":25643215,"story_id":25642392,"story_title":"Blocking Pinterest may reduce your data usage","story_url":"https://ruky.me/2021/01/05/you-might-want-to-block-pinterest-to-save-your-data/","updated_at":"2024-09-20T07:39:24Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Winterflow3r"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","search","results","different","country"],"value":"Yeah - I've just been reading some of the Pinterest engineering blogs linked above about their sophisticated SEO experimentation framework and ugh, I think it's time to load up my browser with extensions or move away from google completely.
Image search has been borked due to Pinterest results for a few years now, but now my text queries have also started being dominated more and more often by their search results. I'm bummed that Google doesn't count the different Pinterest country domains as duplicates and remove them. instead there is like pages upon pages of the same Pinterest result."},"story_title":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["google","search","results"],"value":"Ask HN: Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search results?"}},"_tags":["comment","author_Winterflow3r","story_25538586"],"author":"Winterflow3r","comment_text":"Yeah - I've just been reading some of the Pinterest engineering blogs linked above about their sophisticated SEO experimentation framework and ugh, I think it's time to load up my browser with extensions or move away from google completely.
Image search has been borked due to Pinterest results for a few years now, but now my text queries have also started being dominated more and more often by their search results. I'm bummed that Google doesn't count the different Pinterest country domains as duplicates and remove them. instead there is like pages upon pages of the same Pinterest result.","created_at":"2020-12-25T20:13:56Z","created_at_i":1608927236,"objectID":"25538706","parent_id":25538664,"story_id":25538586,"story_title":"Ask HN: Why does Pinterest dominate Google text search results?","updated_at":"2024-09-20T07:36:44Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Rebelgecko"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","search","results","different","country"],"value":"Google must really hate URLs. My search results recently stopped showing the full path of the URL, just the domain name. It was a huge pain because I was looking for an item at Ikea and couldn't tell if a result went to their American site or to their UK, Saudi Arabian, Qatari, etc. site (apparently the same item can have small differences in different countries\u2014 I almost bought the wrong lightbulbs because the UK version of my lamp uses a different size bulb)."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again"},"story_url":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"partial","matchedWords":["google"],"value":"https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-chrome-hides-www-and-https-in-the-address-bar-again/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_Rebelgecko","story_20626807"],"author":"Rebelgecko","children":[20627905,20628460,20628474,20630611],"comment_text":"Google must really hate URLs. My search results recently stopped showing the full path of the URL, just the domain name. It was a huge pain because I was looking for an item at Ikea and couldn't tell if a result went to their American site or to their UK, Saudi Arabian, Qatari, etc. site (apparently the same item can have small differences in different countries\u2014 I almost bought the wrong lightbulbs because the UK version of my lamp uses a different size bulb).","created_at":"2019-08-06T17:34:57Z","created_at_i":1565112897,"objectID":"20627471","parent_id":20626807,"story_id":20626807,"story_title":"Chrome hides www and https:// in the address bar again","story_url":"https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-chrome-hides-www-and-https-in-the-address-bar-again/","updated_at":"2024-09-20T04:36:02Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"darwinGod"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","search","results","different","country"],"value":"To those very new to India's politics, there are few things to consider before forming an opinion of Modi's involvement in the 2002 riots.
(a) The Government in power at the center was the opposition party ( Congress) throughout the last decade. (2004-214). If they had the power to twist Supreme court's arm (appointment of judges etc), they would have most certainly done that, and influenced the outcome.
(b) The Government at the Center (2004-2014) has had at its disposal the main investigative body of the country (CBI) to do any arm-twisting against Modi.
(c)Despite this, and despite intense media scrutiny in India, if the Supreme Court- the highest court in India- has given Modi a clean chit on his involvement in the riots, then sufficient respect has to accorded to the same. It is significantly way,way,WAY more authoritative than any wannabe-investigative journalists airing their opinions non-stop on television or highly-viewed blog articles. Let that sink in.
If a thousand well-indexed news articles/ well followed blogs paint a different picture, that does not change facts.
The Supreme court of India has been known to be strong and independent,even openly rebuking the Center for it's stupidity and corruption ( Search for 2G-Spectrum scam). True we have a lot of corruption everywhere,but the arm-chair dismissal of Indian Supreme Court's weightage- by Indians ourselves- against top 10 google search results - pains me.
If Indians ourselves cant do that, how can we expect the global audience to form an informed opinion?"},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"India's pro-business Modi storms to historic election win"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/16/us-india-election-idUSBREA4E0XG20140516"}},"_tags":["comment","author_darwinGod","story_7755182"],"author":"darwinGod","comment_text":"To those very new to India's politics, there are few things to consider before forming an opinion of Modi's involvement in the 2002 riots.
(a) The Government in power at the center was the opposition party ( Congress) throughout the last decade. (2004-214). If they had the power to twist Supreme court's arm (appointment of judges etc), they would have most certainly done that, and influenced the outcome.
(b) The Government at the Center (2004-2014) has had at its disposal the main investigative body of the country (CBI) to do any arm-twisting against Modi.
(c)Despite this, and despite intense media scrutiny in India, if the Supreme Court- the highest court in India- has given Modi a clean chit on his involvement in the riots, then sufficient respect has to accorded to the same. It is significantly way,way,WAY more authoritative than any wannabe-investigative journalists airing their opinions non-stop on television or highly-viewed blog articles. Let that sink in.
If a thousand well-indexed news articles/ well followed blogs paint a different picture, that does not change facts.
The Supreme court of India has been known to be strong and independent,even openly rebuking the Center for it's stupidity and corruption ( Search for 2G-Spectrum scam). True we have a lot of corruption everywhere,but the arm-chair dismissal of Indian Supreme Court's weightage- by Indians ourselves- against top 10 google search results - pains me.
If Indians ourselves cant do that, how can we expect the global audience to form an informed opinion?","created_at":"2014-05-16T15:45:11Z","created_at_i":1400255111,"objectID":"7756065","parent_id":7755182,"story_id":7755182,"story_title":"India's pro-business Modi storms to historic election win","story_url":"http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/16/us-india-election-idUSBREA4E0XG20140516","updated_at":"2024-09-19T20:46:40Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"atmosx"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","search","results","different","country"],"value":"DuckDuckGo is a Good search Engine for English-speaking countries. I'm European (Greek) and whenever I need to search the Greek-web, which is quite often, I found DDG result's lucking very basic staff.
To give you an example, say the government passed a new law (which happens every day), if I try searching at DuckDuckGo 9 out 10 I won't find anything closely related. If I search Google the most prominent newspaper headlines (along with notorious news-sites) pop-up and I find what I need.
I know that Google closely monitors my clicks (I own a Chromebook and Chrome is my default browser everywhere) and shows me different results than other users. But thing is, for non-English content it's too far ahead of the competition for the time being."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"Over one billion searches were made on DuckDuckGo in 2013"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://duck.co/blog/friends-newsletter-45"}},"_tags":["comment","author_atmosx","story_7040351"],"author":"atmosx","comment_text":"DuckDuckGo is a Good search Engine for English-speaking countries. I'm European (Greek) and whenever I need to search the Greek-web, which is quite often, I found DDG result's lucking very basic staff.
To give you an example, say the government passed a new law (which happens every day), if I try searching at DuckDuckGo 9 out 10 I won't find anything closely related. If I search Google the most prominent newspaper headlines (along with notorious news-sites) pop-up and I find what I need.
I know that Google closely monitors my clicks (I own a Chromebook and Chrome is my default browser everywhere) and shows me different results than other users. But thing is, for non-English content it's too far ahead of the competition for the time being.","created_at":"2014-01-11T17:22:19Z","created_at_i":1389460939,"objectID":"7043060","parent_id":7040351,"points":null,"story_id":7040351,"story_title":"Over one billion searches were made on DuckDuckGo in 2013","story_url":"https://duck.co/blog/friends-newsletter-45","updated_at":"2023-09-06T21:53:52Z"},{"_highlightResult":{"author":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"kikimora"},"comment_text":{"fullyHighlighted":false,"matchLevel":"full","matchedWords":["google","search","results","different","country"],"value":"I think you oversimplify a lot and miss many real world things that a Google sized org has to deal with.
Machine maintenance - someone has to coordinate updates across multiple data centers run by different organizations. Imagine you want to update networking from 1Gbs to 10Gbs across 3 DS in 3 different countries and time zones. After a while you\u2019ll wish to own data centers, but that means multiple legal entities, bank accounts, etc. in different countries.
Machine procurement - one DC can buy Intels XYZ while another cannot because there are no local vendors who can deliver. So now you have a dilemma - build software working on different hardware, complicate all future updates or go and negotiate with Intel and other vendors.
Regulatory changes is when Malaysian government decides that it wants to protect children from something and you have to take extra measures before you can show search results or publish ads. Or EU votes for something called GDPR. Or Russia suddenly decides that Ads must be VAT taxed.
And don\u2019t forget about a Microsoft exec who wants to discuss how they can use Google Search in their browser.
Honestly I don\u2019t see how it can be done with 50 engineers. You\u2019ll need hundreds of people, mostly managers and clerks to keep this thing running."},"story_title":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"What the Goddamn Hell Is Going on in the Tech Industry?"},"story_url":{"matchLevel":"none","matchedWords":[],"value":"https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/what-the-goddamn-hell-is-going-on-in-the-tech-industry/"}},"_tags":["comment","author_kikimora","story_38095542"],"author":"kikimora","children":[38123504],"comment_text":"I think you oversimplify a lot and miss many real world things that a Google sized org has to deal with.
Machine maintenance - someone has to coordinate updates across multiple data centers run by different organizations. Imagine you want to update networking from 1Gbs to 10Gbs across 3 DS in 3 different countries and time zones. After a while you\u2019ll wish to own data centers, but that means multiple legal entities, bank accounts, etc. in different countries.
Machine procurement - one DC can buy Intels XYZ while another cannot because there are no local vendors who can deliver. So now you have a dilemma - build software working on different hardware, complicate all future updates or go and negotiate with Intel and other vendors.
Regulatory changes is when Malaysian government decides that it wants to protect children from something and you have to take extra measures before you can show search results or publish ads. Or EU votes for something called GDPR. Or Russia suddenly decides that Ads must be VAT taxed.
And don\u2019t forget about a Microsoft exec who wants to discuss how they can use Google Search in their browser.
Honestly I don\u2019t see how it can be done with 50 engineers. You\u2019ll need hundreds of people, mostly managers and clerks to keep this thing running.","created_at":"2023-11-02T21:52:04Z","created_at_i":1698961924,"objectID":"38120760","parent_id":38107554,"story_id":38095542,"story_title":"What the Goddamn Hell Is Going on in the Tech Industry?","story_url":"https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/what-the-goddamn-hell-is-going-on-in-the-tech-industry/","updated_at":"2025-08-14T22:53:53Z"}],"hitsPerPage":20,"nbHits":154,"nbPages":8,"page":0,"params":"query=google+search+results+different+country&advancedSyntax=true&analyticsTags=backend","processingTimeMS":65,"processingTimingsMS":{"_request":{"roundTrip":20},"afterFetch":{"format":{"highlighting":2,"total":2},"merge":{"mergeLoop":{"prepareNextHit":12,"total":12},"total":13},"total":13},"fetch":{"query":18,"scanning":31,"total":50},"total":65},"query":"google search results different country","serverTimeMS":68}