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Re: When Searching With Google

• To: Murali Mani <mani@C...>
• Subject: Re: When Searching With Google
• From: Liam Quin <liam@w...>
• Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 18:45:42 -0500
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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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