Well, another addition to this test would be, querying a number dummy keywords first with related niche of the test keyword having cookies enabled and disabled on different set of browsers. Then try to click some consistent theme search results, i.e, query words like apple, then click in search results considering apple as a fruit, not a gadget.

This results may or may not contribute to some varying search search results with different browsers.

James

The variances from a mobile device and from less commonly used computers seem to side with the lesser used browser where we appear infrequently if at all. It’s strange behavior and for my sake, I hope it normalizes .

One thing I have noticed over the past month or so is clients in different parts of the Uk are getting different results to me for the same keyword – sometimes as much as 5 places difference. Like you – at first i thought it was down to personal search but they have all disabled their PS.

I’m assuming this has a lot to do with the proposed Google Caffeine update which no one from google has commented on since they said it would go live after xmas hols.

Cheers Jim

I was more thinking of the first instance: comparing different mobile browsers set up on the same device.

But it might also be interesting to cross-check results obtained from mobile browsers (with the geolocalization feature turned off on the mobile device of course) to standard SERPs (from your regular computer)…

Best regards,

VV

Thanks for your comment. No but that would make an interesting follow up experiment. Are you suggesting compare results of different mobile browsers installed on the same device or the different default browsers that come on the various devices like iPhone compared to Droid?

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