Different SERPS based on geography?

[pleeker]

Not sure where to post this, but it happened on Google so I'll aim here. Mods, please move as required.

I'm on the west coast, USA. I do a single-word search this morning on Google and get something like 12-million results.

Another person, on the east coast, at essentially the same time (maybe a couple minutes later), does the exact same single-word search but gets only about 7 million results.

What's the explanation for the difference in quantity of SERPS?

Just curious....

[vitaplease]

Sometimes its due to google serving you results from different data-servers, where it might also be that one contains fresh results and the other not, or one is using the safe filter or not.

However Google does seem to vary the number of results shown from time to time, depending on if someone is using google.com, google.us or some other local google and from where the person is using these google versions. So it does seem to be a geographical thing, but I have not seen any exact concluding answers to this.

Geo-results - Also discussed in the suporters forum.