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no, they don't (unless your site is hosted on a spammy pseudo TLD like co.cc), but in general google does not prefer one TLD over the other (they stated this a thousand time, you just have to trust them, if we annoy matt enough he will probalby even stated this here once again) - google does not prefer one TLD over the other - but people are.

people search for [nissan.com], so that domain has navigational search demand, which is very likely a factor for google.

people link to nissan.com (yes, they do https://www.google.com/search?q=link%3Awww.nissan.com&pw...) without even checking if it's the right domain (and sometimes out of other reasons than we think, i.e. lawsuits

(CMS also tend to convert every .com pseudo urls into an link, so this is also a factor)

people tend to click on official looking search results, .com looks official.

google prefers what people search, link, click on. so (sadly) .com matters.



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