Different Rankings from Google IP Compared to Google.com

[ByronM]

I'm finding strange quirks. Apparently if i get refers from a google search IP my site ranks really well but if its from a Google.com (dns active) i seem to be spotty if any coverage at all.

Is this just more sandbox effect?

new site is hitting 3 months old, old site was retired so we paid a price for that.

[edited by: tedster at 5:46 pm (utc) on April 17, 2008]
[edit reason] moved from another location [/edit]

[tedster]

Three months is still pretty new for a domain - a recent post on the Google Official Blog talks about 180 days (see our thread [webmasterworld.com]), and that's with a few steps included that you say you missed out on.

The disconnect between search results from an IP address and results from a Google domain has been growing in recent weeks/months. The question of what gets injected at the last minute - what kind of special sauce is going on - is fun to think about but hard to test.

One thing I suspect is geo-location filters based on the user's IP address. But I also wonder whether there's an added layer in there - maybe human editorial parameters?

[ByronM]

I also seem to be 90% international traffic and 10% US if not even higher international.