Has anyone else seen this happen? I did a search for my client's keyphrase and they had the following results: They were #3 in IE (PC) and #2 in the following Netscape (MAC & PC), Firefox (MAC & PC) and Safari (MAC). All the searches were done with Google. This happens off and on but without any sense of purpose or reason. I can only assume the Google Dance has something to with it, but that it was so browser specific was interesting. The search phrase is: trade show displays
I have noticed this as well. Different results in the Google toolbar and with G.com in both IE and Firefox. I just chalked it up to different DC's.
Anthony is right. I'm watching six different datacenters randomly rotating through the Phoenix area. Each has different results.
That is what I thought, but isn't it odd that the the results are always the same for each browser. This must mean a dc is specifically used for a particular browser. Yet another confusing issue to explain to my clients.
Just like any network, it forwards the request to the one that has less load on it you would think, that is how they keep speed in the system
Lately I've noticed completely different results for my domain every time I enter it. Something weird is going on. Maybe a PR update coming?
You make a great point, if one never erases their cookies you could see results from 3 months ago. When Yahoo stopped using Google results folks were still seeing Google results 3 months later when in fact Yahoo was not using Google results any more. The cookie in the users computer caused Yahoo to show the old result instead of the new live ones. Moral of the story is, if you want updated pages erase your cookies once in a while
I never thought about the cookie issue, but what a pain when you have to re-key all of your logins and such.
Firefox will show old pages unless you clear the memory also. Plus temp. internet files and all offline files in Windows disk clean up utility should be run too.