I bought a .se domain for a project of mine. In Google Webmaster tools the geographic target is set to Sweden with no way (that I saw) to change it. I got very limited traffic from natural search.
I recently bought a .com domain for the same project and I am already seeing an increase in natural search.
I mean why should a smart search engine like Google limit a TLD to a particular region. Especially since squatters buy good .com domains and charge premium prices. They of all people should know the difficulties of finding relevant domains.
I recently bought a .com domain for the same project and I am already seeing an increase in natural search.