Updated: 2006-02-04. The following is no longer true and back to normal... somehow.
It turns out that, my hiding email addresses article has shifted over to another Google universe. It appears and ranks better on Google Deutschland, then Google Canada, even though the content (and the headers sent) is natively in English.
However, on Google Canada, it explicitly offers an option to be 'translated' to respecting language. Somewhere down the line an article which resides on a .ca TLD, jumped over to the dark side, disguising itself in German language.
This makes no sense considering two factors; the TLD, and the content/headers that I have and sent.
On .de the article ranks better simply because there are less competing articles then the SERPs on .ca for the same keywords - straight forward.
My best guess is that, the German community picked up on the article better then the English. The backlinks are outweighed towards the German community, in terms of their own [site's] content language. Therefore, it only seems common sense (if there is such a thing) to be able to conclude that because it is recognized more so by the German side, the Google engine emphasizes or at least concludes that a given page is in popularized language.
[Google German, if you are reading this.. I want my article back!]
Why do you think this is so?
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Comment by Ruslan replied on #2006-03-04 02:31:55
I think there's no way to protect your blog articles. If you publish your intellectual property you should be ready that somebody with better search engine positioning will take it, and if that's something topical - a lot of people will republish it.