site: queries differ from Firefox to Chrome to IE8

[FranticFish]

I'm in the process of moving a small site from one domain to another.

The old .com domain was hosted in Germany but geotargeted in WMT to the UK and did show in the Google.co.uk's 'UK only' index.

The new .biz domain is hosted in the UK; I have not yet set the geo-targeting in WMT (never occurred to me as I thought UK hosting would be sufficient)

Checking to see how the pages are being picked up I noticed the following:

CHROME
1) Web results
Shows all pages from the site (and has added more over the space of a few days) but the parked domain page from the new hosts instead of the actual home page.
2) UK results
Nothing.

FIREFOX (no toolbar)
1) Web results
Correct home page only showing.
2) UK results
Nothing

IE8 (toolbar)
1) Web results
As Chrome
2) All pages from the site EXCEPT the home page

Is this just down to different DCs? I admit I've never checked in this depth before, but as it's a small site it's quick to do, just found it interesting and wondered what people thought.

[tedster]

First thing I'd say is that the site: operator seems particularly whacked out lately. My best guess is that because your server move is new, you can't draw any conclusions right now.

However, if the site was classified as "from Germany" for most of its recent history, then you may find that kind of sticks -- unless you get proactive about making it change by doing things like attracting more UK backlinks. Geo-targeting in WMT might wreak havoc with you current traffic if it's not already UK-heavy.

[HRoth]

I happened across this looking for info because I noticed a difference in my site search results between www and non-www and a drop in the number of pages indexed, from the usual 503 to 486 and 436. I also noticed that Google massively crawled my site for a couple of days, all pages, so I got pretty nervous. Maybe I should still be, but I don't see any change in ranking for search terms, no evil eye. After seeing this thread, I went and checked site: results on Safari and Firefox. They both had a higher number of results (499) and the same for both www and non-www. So what the heck? Why would this difference exist?

[FranticFish]

Checking again, they now agree. The only explanation I can think of is that queries in Chrome, the toolbar and the Google site go to different DCs - whether that's all the time or just when I happened to be checking, who knows.