One search, but different results

It depends on what the language of my browser is?

[oLeon]

I donīt know, if I miss a thread about this, but I found these two results on Google.com:
the first one [google.com] has only got 2010 results.
the second one [google.com] has got 87,400 results. And as a fact Google changed the search, that has originally been "onlineradio" (one word), but Google gives results with two words (online radio). I assumed, the reason for giving two word results was, that there was no results with one word, but thatīs wrong.

Furthermore I noticed, that if in the searchstring is written
".../search?hl=en&q=onlineradio" (first case)
you get only a few results, but if itīs
".../search?hl=de&q=onlineradio" (second case)
you get more and the search is not limited to one single word but a phrase.

Has anybody seen this before?

[hakre]

hi oLeon, as you alreday thought, this depends on the language. if you don't have cookies enabled and used google preferences, it will redirect you to the lang specific page (google.de/google.com) etc based on ip-address and browser language settings.

if you want to use the us-version only, enter www.google.com/en and this auto-redirection won't touch you anymore. maybe with other languages this works, too, but i haven't tested it yet. this also prevents from country specific censored pages ;)

[oLeon]

Sorry,
but thatīs not what I asked for.
As you can see, both URLs are from Google.com, itīs not the question about redirect.

Have a look:
the first result has got the URL
[google.com...]
and the second one has got the URL
[google.com...]

So, thatīs not because of redirecting. The only difference is between "...?hl=en..." and "...?hl=de...", and I assumed that these are the language settings of my browser.
Even if so, thatīs no reason to show results from the phrase "online radio", though I only searched for "onlineradio".

Why is there a difference in numbers of results? Why should I get less results searching with an EN-language setting (if this is the reason)? And whatīs the reason for getting results from phrases, I didnīt searched for?

[vitaplease]

eleon,

I think the language difference thing has been on for a while.
Very confusing.
I think google is trying to geo-localise-differentiate more and more.
Language usage may be part of it as well.

[webmasterworld.com...]
[webmasterworld.com...]

also they might be using parts or variations of this:

[0039] Instead of, or in addition to, filtering the raw count, the raw count may be weighted based on the nature of the visit (430). For example, one may wish to assign a weighting factor to a visit based on the geographic source for the visit (e.g., counting a visit from Germany as twice as important as a visit from Antarctica). Any other type of information that can be derived about the nature of the visit (e.g., the browser being used, information concerning the user, etc.) could also be used to weight the visit. This weighted visit frequency 430 may then be used as the refined visit frequency 440

from one of their patents:

"Methods and apparatus for employing usage statistics in document retrieval"
as mentioned in this patent thread:
[webmasterworld.com...]

[heini]

Yep, that's what I think, geo-targeting in the works.

I mostly see those differences for location based searches.
I can't however seem to find a pattern in the different sets of results.