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That is surprising; if they use a deterministic and same algorithm
irrespective of the server used by google, then we should always get the
same result unless data set really changes (for example, if ranks change
between the queries etc)..
Am I not right? Or is it really that different servers will give different
results..?? I am slightly sceptical..
best, murali.
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Liam Quin wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 07:39:00AM -0800, Murali Mani wrote:
> > In short, I heard that if I search for the key words "w1 w2 ..." and
> > someone else searches for the same set of key words, google might give
> > different ranked results -
>
> Yes - this is because of teh way they distribute the query, and as I
> understand it is not related to anything other than how the hash of
> each user's IP maps to a specific server within Google.
>
> Liam
>
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