Google.com.ph (Google Philippines) is google search engine's version for the Philippines whose language that is used is Filipino/Tagalog. It still includes most of Google's features such as image search, news, book search, translate and groups. Users geographically located in the Philippines that tries to visit google.com is redirected to the Google Philippines or google.com.ph.
Google Philippines English and Google Philippines Tagalog are the 2 versions of the search engine specialized for Filipino audience.
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In January 2008, Google announced a conference call to discuss fourth quarter and fiscal year 2008 financial results. A webcast will be available at Google Investor Section according to Adoperationsonline.
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According to alexa.com, Google Philippines ranks 427 among the websites on the internet. It generates most of its traffic from the Philippines which makes it one of the most visited website in the philippines. According to Quantcast Audience Profile, google.ph ranks 666,002 among websites on quantcast database.
According to robtex.com's google.com.ph domain information. It is using four (4) nameservers at google.com whose current page rank is PR8 according to PR Site Checker.
Some googlers from the Philippines are annoyed by the redirection of Google.com to Google Philippines. Thanks to the users of Yahoo! Answers for the useful information that would set your google.com.ph to google.com/google.com.us. It also ranks as the 314th smartest website in the world outranked by unknown websites such as gigas frank according to IQ League.
In January 31, 2009, Google Philippines was affected by a glitch in the search engine which marks all the search results with "This site may harm your computer". Other services such as gmail accounts spambox flooded with false positive and StopBadware.org went down during the event.
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For more information, check out statbrain's google.com.ph or Google.ph.
