vinaya wrote:I think domain extensions can actually affect search engine page rank. Search engines priority is always to show trusted sites and authentic information. Let me exemplify, if you are seeking a visa to France and search France Visa on Google, it will rank dot gov or dot org websites higher than dot com. The reason is dot gov is a government website, dot org is government or other official website and dot com is a commercial website.
That is really a very good point. That didn't strike me, thanks for updating my knowledge.
That means Google is applying some mechanism based on domain extensions. They may show the most authoritative sites first when we search for a particular thing. That is just amazing. I must say Google is doing a very good job in that front then.
Then I believe in case of common sites with .com extension the order will be based on key words. Am I right?