No. 6 using IE, No. 29 using Firefox

[wavedancing]

I have a site ranked No. 6 while using IE but it's ranked No. 29 using Firefox for the same keyword. Anyone can explain?

[wsmeyer]

Sounds very strange. A couple websites, like this one:

http://www.mcdar.net/dance/index.php

Will let you view search results from the different Google servers. It might just the results "dancing" around but report back and let us know.

William.

[ADAM Web Design]

First of all, IE and FireFox don't rank websites. They're browsers. Now each of them has a default engine you can use to search with (FF being Google, I believe, and IE being MSN).

If that's what you're referring to, MSN's search has a much smaller database and a different algorithm than Google does. So you will see different results.

[wavedancing]

Originally Posted by wsmeyer

Sounds very strange. A couple websites, like this one:

http://www.mcdar.net/dance/index.php

Will let you view search results from the different Google servers. It might just the results "dancing" around but report back and let us know.

William.

William,

thank you. Just used the tool and interesting enough, the result of the tool is different with IE and Firefox. The keyword is "tattoo design". If anyone is interested, please try it on different web browsers. It seems like Google result is affected by the browser you are using.

[Izzmo]

I doubt it is the browser. Try clearing your cache and see what happens.

I know FOR A FACT that FireFox will mess up some HTML code and stuff on some websites, but it shouldn't be affecting results, at all.

Like AdamWebDesign said, they are browsers, and do not rank sites from a server.

Although, I'm just thinking about it here... maybe FireFox is jumbling/mixing the results up as it is getting processed.. that could be the problem. FireFox always messes something up.

[wavedancing]

Originally Posted by ADAMWebDesign

First of all, IE and FireFox don't rank websites. They're browsers. Now each of them has a default engine you can use to search with (FF being Google, I believe, and IE being MSN).

If that's what you're referring to, MSN's search has a much smaller database and a different algorithm than Google does. So you will see different results.

You misunderstood me. I use different browsers but all searches are performed on Google. The question is, same search engine gives different result to different browsers.

[ADAM Web Design]

That's a little different.

Google polls from different servers and it's well within the realm of possibility that searching from IE and from FF will produce two different sets of results as each hits a different servers. So what wsmeyer said makes sense.

[wavedancing]

Originally Posted by Izzmo

I doubt it is the browser. Try clearing your cache and see what happens.

I know FOR A FACT that FireFox will mess up some HTML code and stuff on some websites, but it shouldn't be affecting results, at all.

Like AdamWebDesign said, they are browsers, and do not rank sites from a server.

Although, I'm just thinking about it here... maybe FireFox is jumbling/mixing the results up as it is getting processed.. that could be the problem. FireFox always messes something up.

The cache thing seems to be right. Just tried on a different computer with different browsers and the results are the same.

[Izzmo]

Yep, I've had something similiar happen to me once. Although they weren't mixing up the results, it was just where Google would say there is 3 pages of results and there was really 2. Cleared the cache it was right again.

Who knows how Google gets messed up sometimes ;).