this may not be doable given that IP ranges can span countries, as far as i know, but i think it’d be beneficial if a country code/flag would accompany the results - this could be especially useful for shoppers, researchers, etc., but also generally
with Firefox i use an extension which indicates the country in which the server resides (super useful), but it isn’t always accurate
whether something along these lines can be incorporated into Mojeek, i don’t know
In principle this is a good idea. However for many cases how do you decide what country should be shown? To take one example; should Ben & Jerry’s show a USA flag or that of the owner Unilever (and is that UK or Netherlands).
We do try to detect countries (notably for ranking based on location) but it’s actually a difficult problem. We have used the country in which the server resides for many years but it has got more and more inaccurate, indeed as you noted.
Anyway, it’s something we are continually working on improving so it’s may make sense in the future to introduce.
CDNs like Cloudflare also make it difficult to decide which country a site belongs to. Their wiki indicates that ~20% of all websites use them.
There are other datapoints that could be used like schema.org for Organization types etc.