Different Data Centers, Redux

This is getting silly.

I look in Shawn's keyword tool and I am about #36. I look with the McDar tool and I range from #33 to #37. OK, shrung and sigh.

I look on Google itself and I am #7. I recall, as if a feverdream, a couple of nights ago when I was #17 and #18 on repeated, spaced calls. Today, on two calls some minutes apart, still #7. I believe I have mentioned here before, some time ago, that whatever Google is serving me, I am consistently higher than those tools report--but, as I said, this difference is just silly.

How can Google be a "search engine" if it tells Mr. A that I am the 36th most relevant site for certain keywords, while simultaneously telling Ms. B that I am the 7th most relevant? Sure, I love looking at my screen and seeing myself on the front page--but I have to ask myself, is that my "real" SERP? What is Google all about? I would expect that anyone in the world, at any moment, searching for a given phrase should get a set of answers in which nothing varies by more than 2 or 3 spots--not by almost 30 spots.

(Mind, I have been on Yahoo's 20-item front page for many weeks now, while Google was juggling me from #84 to #27).

And while I'm yelping, how much difference does anyone feel the order of search terms should make to results? Is it, do we suppose, perfectly sound and right that a search for X Y and a search for Y X turn out drastically different results (such as #29 and #7)? I'm not flat asserting that it isn't right, but such a large differential seems weird.

(Now maybe 10 minutes have passed, and I'm still at #7--it wasn't a momentary glitch, and it's what I am consistently being served at this time.)

 

The phrase I enter into Google is--

fantasy science fiction​

--exactly so, no quotation marks, no hyphens, no nuttin'.

Of course, now, some hours later, the tide has gone out again, and I am apparently #35, which is in line with the keyword tool here and with McDar's results. But my ecstasy was not one brief, random moment: it lasted for, oh, 20 minutes (I mean, it could have been many hours--I'm egocentric, but not so much so that I'll sit a my screen hour after hour polling Google). And it came back that way every time, on at least several tries.

The URL is http://greatsfandf.com, which is how I am set at your keyword tool, Shawn. I have long now (oh, weeks anyway) had a redirect for the www. form to what I consider my canonical form, which is sans the www. (Jeez, and I used to criticize others for using sans as an English word--how low we sink).

I do wish I knew how and why SERPs seem to be like old-time AM radio stations a long ways off as heard late at night--now strong, now fading, now gone, now strong again. I didn't believe the #17/#18 I was getting late one night a week or so ago, and sure enough, like a fever-dream, it was gone in the morning. But now . . . ?

Where is the datacenter that is giving me these tantalizing tastes of celebrity?