Official Google answer: Google is currently showing local results for generic terms (such as "restaurants") even when you don't specify a town/city. Is Google going to start displaying different results based in the location of the IP (even when logged out)?

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Google is currently showing local results for generic terms (such as "restaurants") even when you don't specify a town/city. Is Google going to start displaying different results based in the location of the IP (even when logged out)?

Google's Matt Cutts answers:

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Question

Views

How would Google consider (and rank) a site that uses meta data and URLs in a language (Italian) and has the H1 of the pages in another (English) considered more appealing for users?

443

What is the best way to serve different content according to user country IP (legal reasons)?

436

Love the new "real time" results displaying on SERP. Is it possible to distinguish these from the other results with a different background colour or surrounding border?

363

With a lot of my potential clients, the first words out of their mouth when building a site is "Can you make my site #1 on Google?

506

I bought a domain 7 months ago. The website I put on it still doesn't show in the SERPs. Since 2000 it's had different owners - used by a co. in Oz, it's then served ads, then "for sale" with a company for 4ish years. Will it have trust issues in Google?

507