It appears sometime around March 2012 the Google geo-targeting policy. I’m pretty sure (not 100% though) prior to March I was able to set http://stancarney.ca/ as ‘Unlisted’, meaning that it would not be geo-targeted in Google search results. After some more digging I found a help page explaining Google’s Geo-Targeting rules and confirmed it via my webmaster tools account. If you have a country specific TLD Google will not allow you to geo-target any search results besides the country of which the ccTLD is assigned. They have a list of generic country code top level domains that they deem to be exceptions and allow you to change the geo-targeted country.
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I'm an idea developer. I'm also the Co-Founder, CTO of Redfall Technologies and Vogogo.com. I design and implement online payment systems, specifically online wallets, NACHA, Canadian Payments Association and credit card processing. I also dabble in all things technical. 
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