Google Changes Search Results Based on Browser???

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by mberman84, Jul 25, 2008.

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    Ok I just wrote up a blog post here (http://internetbusinessdaily.net/google-changes-results-based-on-browser/) about this so I won't go into too much detail.

    Basically, Google displays two different search results pages at the same time from the same IP but on two different browsers. Safari is showing different results than Firefox. Very weird. I had no idea about this.

    Who knew??
     
    mberman84, Jul 25, 2008 IP
  2. DomainMagia

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    I`d say it depends on browser settings. I think that Safari may have some personalized setup.
     
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    this happened on 3 separate computers...2 from the same location.
     
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    this is happening because your search queries are being routed to different datacenters
     
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    so they route different datacenters based on browser? its the same outcome then.
     
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    Also if you have any Google account like Gmail etc open and different cookies on the browser will also affect the search results.. Google is playing around with the algorithms to try and give search results based on your history so pretty much different people will get tailored results even when searching the same search string / query.
     
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