boblq([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 06:15:58PM -0700: > Hmmm .... > > I don' t know if anyone has ever checked/expereinced > this before but ... > > I have an XP box beside my LInux box, both connected > via Linksys router to my cablemodem. > > I surf Google on the same search term and get very > different results on the two boxes. Has anyone noticed > this before? Is Google tweaking their responses by > OS? > > BTW, Mozilla and Konquerer both return the sme > results on Linux. > > Firefox and IE return same results on XP. > > But XP != Linux. >
The next step would be to see if you can tell the browser to return a different user agent string, and by that affect the return results. The OS is usually part of that string, so that could be what they're using to differentiate the results. I haven't played with that for a long time. It was very simple with Galeon, and then those developers decided that they wanted a better indication of how many users were using that browser. They left the functionality in, but purposely made it quite a bit more difficult. I'm still pretty sure that both Konq, Firefox, and Mozilla can do this. Wade -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
