Originally Posted by
BobbySteel
The ad trageting is wholly intentional since commercial offers are inherently local
Yes, of course the country-based selection of explicit advertisements (typically displayed in a column on the right) makes plenty of sense. It's the way that Google messes with the weighting of search results that probably would surprise most users if they looked carefully - eg my example of bringing Best Buy up the list when you put in "headphones" and you are in the US. I don't know whether this counts as an "advertisement" in the Google commercial model.