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Old 2014-10-22, 03:34 AM   #1
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Google Search On Different Browsers

I needed photo references for drawings on a new project, so I did a Google picture search for "men in bondage" on Internet Explorer. While I was collecting photos IE crashed. This is a common error using IE8 on pages that require high resource use (I use XP) so I tried again using Chrome which is better on high resource pages. To my surprise I got a totally different set of results. Both had "adult content" set "on".

Backing up to a website search for "men in bondage", I again got different results on both browsers. (Although in this case only slightly different. And most results were on both, but in a different order. There were however two sites that appeared only in one browser's listing.)

Anyone know how Google justify this? I mean the "best search" is the "best search" in whatever browser you use, and giving different results in different browsers means that in one browser Google has to be deliberately giving me results that it does NOT think are the best results to my search!
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Old 2014-10-22, 03:38 AM   #3
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Old 2014-10-22, 05:52 AM   #4
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Important factors influencing display of results are search and surf history. They would be different for each of your browsers - hence they show different results.
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Old 2014-10-22, 06:20 AM   #5
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Well that makes Google a bit useless as most computers are used by several people. If I had a family my search would be influenced by my wife's and children's choices, which may not be mine (for example, a woman is looking for pictures of muscular men may search for "he man" and because her kids used the computer to look up their favourite cartoons all she gets is pictures from the cartoon series - worse - the opposite applies).
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Old 2014-10-22, 12:19 PM   #6
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It may be google and not the browser you are using. I have had different results for different identical terms in the space of a few minutes using IE11
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