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Originally Posted by wige
But doesn't this make the tools unreliable at best? If a rank checking tool queries a specific datacenter, and different filters are applied when the request uses an IP address, this would make the results suspect because no searcher would see the same order of results.
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I don't know about "unreliable" but it's not an exact science. Using the tools can give you an "idea". One that could be what was, what is, or what may or will be. Could also be that an actual searcher never see the exact same results. Hypothetically a "test" DC(s) where the tweaks and changes produce less than desirable results and never go "live".
Dave