Different Google results

depending on the area of the country?

[snowfox121]

I subscribe to a commercial web counter that allows me to re-visit the original web page of visitors to my site. Tonight I was tracking back a guest and I saw from his IP that he is from Toronto in Canada. He came to me via Google, searching "red widgets" and my site was #1 on the page. However when I opened a new browser window and searched "red widgets" I was #19. I live about 3000 miles west of Toronto, but also in Canada.

How can the page he saw in Google have me #1 and the page I see have me #19? Is there something I am not understanding?

[tribal]

Different datacenters. Have you tried searching all centers for your position? It is very likely there will be big differences in the positions.

What's weird tho, for a couple of sites I checked this for, the local Google shows lower results than Google.com, while the pages are in the local language. I never could explain why, if there should be a difference I would've expected it to be in favor of the local version of G, but hey, guess not everything makes sense ;)