TLD not anymore used by Google, important consequences

[QuentinAdt]

Hi,

Google doesn't use anymore the TLD (Google.com, .fr, ...) in the ranking algorithm since last week.

Important consequences:

• Changing the var "google.lang" will still have an impact
• Changing the var google.tld won't have an impact

To get the Geographically AND Language based results:

• Google uses (IP from the client querying OR IF SET the parameters "Region Settings" in https://www.google.com/preferences ) AND language parameter set https://www.google.hr/preferences?#languages

If you want to get Google results like French with an IP based in Germany, 2 options:

• Having and IP address in Germany + set the language to German
• Changing the "Region Settings" AND the language