On Sunday 28 August 2005 07:56 pm, Stewart Stremler wrote: > begin quoting boblq as of Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 06:15:58PM -0700: > > Hmmm .... > > > > I don' t know if anyone has ever checked/expereinced > > this before but ... > > I swear that my wife and I can google for the same thing, and she'll get > useful hits far more often than I. > > > 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? > > Does it change if you tell your browser to lie about what information it > sends back? > > > BTW, Mozilla and Konquerer both return the sme > > results on Linux. > > > > Firefox and IE return same results on XP. > > > > But XP != Linux. > > Interesting. > > Care to give the search-string? We could try it on other platforms as > well. > > -Stewart "OS 9, OS X, Solaris, and SPARC Linux are standing by for you" > Stremler
The search string is "filam" a common abreviation for Filipino American and some other things as well. On my Linux box Results 1 - 10 of about 24,200 for filam. First HIt) http://www.filamarts.org/ On XP Results 1 - 10 of about 24,200 for filam. First hit) http://morwillsearch.com/index.php (seemingly after redirection) The XP box seems to have been hijacked ... I dunno. I will run Spyware Doctor on it. This damn XP box requires constant effort to keep it even marginally functional. BobLQ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
