Does SE give more weightage to inbound links from close geographcal region?

Eg.

1. Will my Indian website get more weightage if I have a inbound / outbound links exchange with Indian websites rather than US website.

2. Does a Inbound link from Indian website with PR 3 have more weightage than Inbound link from US website with PR 3 or more?

Or is all world considered as one by G for calculating the PR

Harish

many of the search engines give extra relevancy weighting to what they deem to be local...IE: a UK site would rank better in the UK search results than the equivalent US site would.

a few things they can look at are:
where the site is hosted
domain extension
the sites linking at the site
the sites the site is linking to

Google has said in the past that links to an Indian site from other Indian site, for example, would help make that site seem more Indian in nature (and thus likely to do better in a search for Indian-specific site).

Let me put it another way. Lots of UK companies have .com addresses. So if someone goes to Google.co.uk and does a UK specific search, you can't just say, "filter out all the sites that don't end in .uk." If you did that, you'd lose a lot of good UK sites.

To get around this, Google will look at the physical location a site is hosted in. So hosted in the UK with a .com address? You'll still be known as a UK.

But what if you are hosted outside the UK and with a .com? That's where links come in. If a lot of UK oriented sites are pointing at you, Google has said that will help them understand that you are also probably relevant to a UK-specific search.

What If an American site has 100 links from .CO.UK domains.