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[Easy Credit Mobiles]

Noticed tonight that two of my laptops gave different results when typing the same search into google. How does that happen?

[Ali-v-8]

Noticed tonight that two of my laptops gave different results when typing the same search into google. How does that happen?

differing results can be from being signed into igoogle, email or mozilla

[Toni Anicic]

And now the magic happens :D

I was trying to explain to people that you can't be No 1 on Google nowadays. You could, few years ago, but not today. You're only number one to some people.

The fact is, Google might return different results on every refresh from the same computer in the same minute, seen it hundreds of times.

Google will also give you different results based on your previous search history (even if you're not logged in with your google account, they'll use cookies and IP). Technology is already there, just look at the Google's behavioral targeting and you'll be surprised how much Google knows about you even when you're not using Google at all ;)

[Hotel_tour]

That can be attributed to mathematical algorithms that maybe considering many other factors such as your past searching history, searches happening at that time etc. All of these are speculations, Google and other search engines are secretive and ever changing.



Thanks