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Re: Lynx-dev Digest, Vol 50, Issue 1
user name
2008-03-02 07:46:11
Hi out there,

it seems that the overal number of hits returnend upon a
Google search
operation differs between
browsers (Lynx, IE, Firefox). Does anybdy know the reason
for this?


Kind regards,


Dietmar


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Google hits browser dependent; why? (was: Lynx-dev Digest, Vol 50, Issue 1)
country flaguser name
United Kingdom
2008-03-02 08:01:16
Dietmar Janetzko wrote:
> it seems that the overal number of hits returnend upon
a Google search
> operation differs between
> browsers (Lynx, IE, Firefox). Does anybdy know the
reason for this?

You will have to ask Google, although I doubt that they will
answer. 
Are you sure that you don't have a cookie set in any of the
browsers and 
that using the same browser with forced refresh produces the
same result 
each time?  Where the results computing platform sensitive? 
Was Lynx 
set to send exactly the same Accept-Language header as the
other browsers?

PS please do not start threads by replying to previous
articles, it 
breaks threading.  Also please don't ever reply to digests
as a whole; 
that also breaks threading and results in useless subjects;
if you have 
a competent email program, it is OK to reply to individual
articles from 
digests, but not to use them to start threads.



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Re: Re: Lynx-dev Digest, Vol 50, Issue 1
country flaguser name
United States
2008-03-02 09:14:06
On Sun, 2 Mar 2008, Dietmar Janetzko wrote:

> Hi out there,
>
> it seems that the overal number of hits returnend upon
a Google search
> operation differs between
> browsers (Lynx, IE, Firefox). Does anybdy know the
reason for this?

I'd guess the request gets passed to different servers based
on the 
user-agent header, and that affects the part of Google's
server-farm
the provides the answer.  (Giving the same query from a
different
network address also can give different answers from
Google).

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Thomas E. Dickey
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et
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