Mr Rayon Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 hi everyone, i was just wondering when I google search something, why are the links/results ordered different between different internet browsers? Anyone know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StringJunky Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 The results are personalised from data extracted from the cookies in each browser, the results of which will depend on what you've searched for with a particular browser in the past with it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Rayon Posted April 14, 2015 Author Share Posted April 14, 2015 Do googles search results (i.e. the order of results) vary from computer to computer as well or just between different internet browsers you're using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StringJunky Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 You could get different results with the same browser on different computers. It's not the browser, it's you the user that defines the results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timo Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 You could get different results with the same browser on different computers. Slightly off-topic, but whatever: If you are using a different computer then you are probably going to have different browsers in a sense (that may share name and version, but are not the same unit of installation). The German language has two words for that, one that says "same model" and one for "same object". Would the English language offer such a distinction, like "equal browsers" (same model) and "same browser" (same piece of installed software)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sensei Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 Do googles search results (i.e. the order of results) vary from computer to computer as well or just between different internet browsers you're using? Take for example keyword "pizza delivery". When you're in Los Angeles you are not interested in pizza delivery in New York, Sidney or London. Search engine should be taking IP address as one of hidden arguments and try searching "pizza" in your local area first to get rid of tons of potentially wrong answers (because of too large distance). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michel123456 Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 (edited) Take for example keyword "pizza delivery". When you're in Los Angeles you are not interested in pizza delivery in New York, Sidney or London. Search engine should be taking IP address as one of hidden arguments and try searching "pizza" in your local area first to get rid of tons of potentially wrong answers (because of too large distance). Yes. even Google itself is redirected to the country you live in. The same search from Google, Google.fr, Google.be or Google.gr will give different results This below example for the word "plan" https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=plan https://www.google.fr/#q=plan https://www.google.be/#q=plan https://www.google.gr/#q=plan The 2,530,000,000 number of results is the same, So i guess the sorting only is different. Edited April 14, 2015 by michel123456 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sensei Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 michel123456, to have fair comparison you should compare English-language (or same-language) only countries. Greek's plan is "σχέδιο" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michel123456 Posted April 16, 2015 Share Posted April 16, 2015 michel123456, to have fair comparison you should compare English-language (or same-language) only countries. Greek's plan is "σχέδιο" Standed corrected You can call me Michel Below Australia, UK and Canada https://www.google.com.au/#q=plan https://www.google.co.uk/#q=plan https://www.google.ca/#q=plan And I noticed my first first link to google US returned me to Google Greece I made an attempt following help from http://www.walkernews.net/2010/10/04/how-to-access-google-usa-from-other-countries/ But I cannot post the link with the search page, it always returns greek to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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