SEO: Does Google care about domain extensions? (.es , .co.uk... etc etc)?

[imseoguru]

Google is not the only search engine in internet world. So care even for other smaller, lesser advanced search engines who could get you good traffic for long tail keywords. you never know, when luck will struck you.

So always go by the rule, that local/country extensions will fetch you good results in most search engines.

Remember you can always optimize domain name with any extension for any area. But google.co.uk would by name itself means its related to UK, hence will be given a bit more prominence and it would be easy to be accepted by other sites for links too.

Think of overall picture while choosing domain name and also the extension you want.

It doesn't matter where ever the site is hosted.