The Google Search Console has a International Targeting section, where it associates your site with a country, which influences "how your site appears in search

The Google Search Console has a International Targeting section, where it associates your site with a country, which influences "how your site appears in search results, and improves our search results for geographic queries." This can be disabled. They have some ccTLDs which do not automatically associate your domain to a specific country as specified here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/62399 https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/62399 .be is not in the list.