Geolocation: Google only crawls from the US

[RyanKent]

A question was previously asked about geo-location and specifically if Google crawled from other countries. I could not locate the original question but wanted to share the below information.

As of earlier this year Google only crawls from US IP addresses:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7paVYBgH0Hw

[mozalbin]

95% of all my sites is swedish sites located in sweden and I can say that every time Google crawls any of my sites, it's from an IP in either Mountain Dew, Washington or Palo Alto. I've never seen Google crawling from any other country. In other words; When it comes to crawling swedish sites, Google uses US IP-addresses. I can't speak for any other country on this question though.

[seoug_2005]

Do you mean if IP address is from any other country, Google won't crawl the site

[RyanKent]

No, not at all.

It is a common practice for sites to set up geo-location where if a user is from the US the site would appear in English, and if the user is from France the site would appear in French, and so forth.