Does Google personalize search results

Discussion in 'Google' started by wisam74us, Jun 8, 2006.

  1. #1
    For the last for weeks I am getting the site of my company in the first spot with Google for our top priority term, but the problem that my colleagues in the company whom using the same shared internet connection and we are in the same office , getting different results, I waited a lot Google to settle down and gives the same results for all of us , but that doesn t happen yet .

    So my final speculation that Goolge personalize my search by comparing the most visited sites by me (through Google tool bar) and put them in the top in case they much any of my search terms .

    I know it looks a silly theory , but if any of you have some explanation for this, feel free to tell me !!!
     
    wisam74us, Jun 8, 2006 IP
  2. Lpspider

    Lpspider Well-Known Member

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    I wouldn't be surprised if this was true.
     
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  3. mad4

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    Are you logged into a google account? Are you using the same browser? Are you visiting the same bit of google (ie .com rather than .co.uk)?
     
    mad4, Jun 8, 2006 IP
  4. Dylan Tovey

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    I've had something similar happen. I'm on a bonus system for SEO related to a particular set of keywords - determined at least partly by google rank at the end of each week.

    Fairly frequently I can do a search and our site is no 1 for the majority of those keywords - my boss does a search and we are no 5 - identical software on a shared cable connection.

    Drives me crazy :)

    Dylan
     
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  5. wisam74us

    wisam74us Well-Known Member

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    All those things stroke on my mind so :
    I am using the same browser of my colleagues, we are using the same operating system (windows 2000)
    All of us using Google.com
    I also ping my data center and try it on thier machines but , the same.
    I tried to login and logout from google account and also for the other machines but still the same
     
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    Same office, shared connection... does the setup include a proxy cache, either locally or with the ISP access?
     
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    I can't get one of mine to show up at all in the serps. However, it is a joint venture and every single person in the other company gets it to show up on top. They check way more than I do. It gets too much traffic to not have a single keyword in the top 10 pages, but this site does not come up for me in Google.
     
    theblackjeep, Jun 8, 2006 IP