Differences between Euro and main results

happened with the update

[theposter]

Ok...check out the results on any of w1,w2,w3 and the .de and .at indexes. Stagerring i should say.

Before anyone here tells me its a case of indexes not getting refreshed yet, crap is what i would say to you. I reported this earlier too.

I get referals from european IP's for the rankings i can see on the the european indexes. and believe me...they sure as hell are way way way different than what the other countries are seeing.

[steveb]

The results of all five are excatly the same for my #1 keyword right now.

[wasmith]

taking the devils advocate role for a moment. Whats wrong with having different SERPs?

Changes are taken by the public at large as Freshness. Lets face it for most searches only a few of the top ten results are there based on user expectation!

For a search that results in 3,000,000 pages i bet at least 1000 pages are equaly content rich to get the remaining top 10 spots not taken by user expectation. SEOs may not like to see change when they have those spots but it makes little difference to the surfer ... in fact it is nearly a newness (or EU) feature for the surfer.

[chiyo]

good point wassmith. I think in many keyword categories many sites are roughly equally relevant. "Pemanent positions" over many months probably only benefits the webmaster, I am sure users would like to see a good variety of relevant sites over a period. It would also reduce webmasters reliance on Google, and reduce SEO's ability to spot the algo. Your suggestion makes absolute good sense. For the user, relevant and ever changing SERP's is what will bring them back.

I really dont know why Google does not do this already.

The point that if there are diffs between regional googles one would expect them to reflect the needs of users from that region is also a good one.

[heini]

Theposter, frankly I fail to see the great differences. I compared quite a few serps, and yes, there are differences. In competitive cats I got variations on first page serps, but never more than 1 listing that was different.

I wonder if this really is due to regional targeting or whatever. I suppose it's just the usual flux happening on and between servers.

Anyway, will keep an eye on that.

[Shakil]

well i just did a search on WWW WWW3 DE CH and AT

for me the top 20 looked VERY VERY similar, apart from minor position change on 1 or 2 listings.

Shak

[bawhitney]

I've been seeing big differences since the dance started. I was hoping www would settle with the European results but no luck. I'm consistently in the top 10 for .de .nl etc but buried in the .com serps. I think there are slight variations of the algo - not for relevence but to test satisfaction / compare spam report frequencies.

[theposter]

Apparantly a post of mine came across as rude on this thread...i apologize..that was not my intention...i guess this issue of different results will get resolved soon.