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fryman
Apr 23rd 2006, 10:20 pm
Amazing... I am getting different results when doing a search with Google just by using a different browser!! Between IE and Opera the results are really different. And another strange thing is that with IE it shows 14 million results, while Opera shows 12,700,000

WTF?? :confused:
SEO Jeff
Apr 23rd 2006, 10:27 pm
Yeah Fryman I've been seeing drastic differences in serps as well. Right now my site is all over the place and has been like this for the past few weeks. Not sure WTF is going on.
maldives
Apr 23rd 2006, 10:28 pm
Can we call it Google Madness?? or is it browser madness??
fryman
Apr 23rd 2006, 10:33 pm
I am just totally baffled. I always thought that hitting a different datacenter would be caused by your location. If my neighbor told me that he was getting different results than mine I would of understood because of the geotargeting, even a simple IP change cause the different SERPs, but how the heck can it be happening just by using a different browser?
jfontestad
Apr 23rd 2006, 11:13 pm
fryman.
you can hit a different datacenter just by querying over and over ... I believe that Google just shuffles through them... even though they geotarget i believe that within those datacenters appointed for that geoarea that they shuffle between them...
Will.Spencer
Apr 23rd 2006, 11:29 pm
C:\>nslookup www.google.com
Server: cns.beaverton.or.bverton.comcast.net
Address: 68.87.69.146

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: www.l.google.com
Addresses: 66.102.7.147, 66.102.7.99, 66.102.7.104
Aliases: www.google.com

This little snippet shows that when I go to "www.google.com", I could be hitting any one of three data centers.
fryman
Apr 23rd 2006, 11:34 pm
fryman.
you can hit a different datacenter just by querying over and over ... I believe that Google just shuffles through them... even though they geotarget i believe that within those datacenters appointed for that geoarea that they shuffle between them...


Yeah, but I have been doing this search many times for a few hours to see if they change, and no, I keep getting the same different results with IE and Opera. It is almost as if Google was saying "ok, this request comes from IE, lets show them this list, and this one comes from Opera, lets show them this other list". I don't see why they would do this.

I could be hitting any one of three data centers.

Yeah, but why would you be hitting one datacenter with one browser and another one with another browser?
Will.Spencer
Apr 23rd 2006, 11:48 pm
Because the browsers are caching the results of the name resolution requests.
alexmos.com
Apr 29th 2006, 4:57 am
Did not know about this Browser difference in google searches... is it kind of discrimination between browsers...
Will.Spencer
Apr 29th 2006, 5:42 am
alex:

There is no "browser difference in google searches."

fryman damnit, you have now created another unkillable urban legend.
ahkip
Apr 29th 2006, 5:43 am
would it becuase you have auto login to google account on one browser and not the other?
jacksmith
Apr 29th 2006, 7:45 am
would it becuase you have auto login to google account on one browser and not the other?
thats right, google likes to give "customized" search results.
Michael_Goldman
Apr 30th 2006, 12:16 pm
Results 1 - 10 of about 103,000,000 for I want my customized search results now!
hmmm. .
Komodo Tale
Apr 30th 2006, 4:11 pm
It is no secret that Google uses different datacenters to deliver their SERPS no matter where you are. It is all a part of their load balancing and everflux updating schemae.

If you want to view the results on different data centers at any one time there are several tools to help you do so:

http://www.seocritique.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=40

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Arizona Web Design
May 1st 2006, 10:21 am
I think Fryman might be right...

I used my favorite google datacenter tool (http://www.void.be/googletool.html) and kept checking the phrase "Student Loans"

In my browser, my site was bouncing as high as #3, but I checked all the datacenters in that tool and I was between 7 and 9. Seems like they might be trying to introduce some elements of personalized search?
Andrew Clarkson
May 1st 2006, 2:05 pm
you can hit a different datacenter just by querying over and over

That is quite true. I've refreshed three times and seen my site in 10th, 9th and 8th position in seconds of each other! :rolleyes:
softgroups
May 2nd 2006, 11:32 am
Well I see that also , and I think it's because Opera it's keeping a DNS cache, or something like that.

While IE it's updating everytime it's DNS. that's all ...