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Google UK Results Changing Every Click

Click on the 'Search' button repeatedly - different everytime ...

         

MikeBeverley

8:35 am on Apr 14, 2004 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Doesn't seem to be happening on Google.com from here but that could be because I'm in the UK.

This isn't on a regular search, this is when you use the domain to filter the results.

e.g. widgets site:widgets.com

each time the page loads it shows a different number of results. So far I've counted 10 different results numbers for one site:

1149
1456
748
752
698
446 ... and so on, which are all dramatic differences in the number of pages Google says it has indexed for my site.

I'm checking all my other sites just now but I wanted to get a head start on what other people thought this might be. Do you think Google is playing with webmasters again (like the ever changing backlinks) or do you think that as well as algorithm tweaks, Google is testing algorithms on different databases?

MikeBeverley

9:10 pm on Apr 15, 2004 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



<bumped>This took forever to be listed on the boards so ended up at the bottom as soon as it got out. Anyone any comments?