Hi I am very new to this and I am sure it will be easy to tell.

I have a website www.melindaspenpals.com where my google search engine
rank varies depending on my location. I am #4 for "filipina penpals"
at home, but #11 at my place of work 20 miles a way. Are there two
different googles?

Second, My PR for my home page seems to switch between PR4 and PR2
throughout the day.. I even deleted and reinstalled by tool bar,
cleared my cache but still this variation... why?

Any comments would be appreciated. Thanks, Steve

On Mon, 23 May 2005 22:50:49 +0200, Steve <webmaster@melindaspenpals.com>
wrote:

> I have a website www.melindaspenpals.com where my google search engine
> rank varies depending on my location. I am #4 for "filipina penpals"
> at home, but #11 at my place of work 20 miles a way. Are there two
> different googles?

Much more. There are several tens of confirmed datacenters, every
datacenter may give slightly different answers. I doubt it is
location dependent, from what I have read datacenter is selected
depending on the traffic. Check if you have always the same answer
from both computers - probably not.

> Second, My PR for my home page seems to switch between PR4 and PR2
> throughout the day.. I even deleted and reinstalled by tool bar,
> cleared my cache but still this variation... why?

See above.

Best,
Borek
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Borek wrote:

> On Mon, 23 May 2005 22:50:49 +0200, Steve <webmaster@melindaspenpals.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I have a website www.melindaspenpals.com where my google search engine
>> rank varies depending on my location. I am #4 for "filipina penpals"
>> at home, but #11 at my place of work 20 miles a way. Are there two
>> different googles?
>
> Much more. There are several tens of confirmed datacenters, every
> datacenter may give slightly different answers. I doubt it is
> location dependent, from what I have read datacenter is selected
> depending on the traffic. Check if you have always the same answer
> from both computers - probably not.


These datacentres seem to be volatile at times. For one given search term,
there may be times where anomalies are spotted and I suppose this is why
you raised the question.

http://www.yourcache.com/

Enter your site and see if the numbers are consistent. Although figures
correspond to pages, it will give you insight into other data that's bound
to your domain.


>> Second, My PR for my home page seems to switch between PR4 and PR2
>> throughout the day.. I even deleted and reinstalled by tool bar,
>> cleared my cache but still this variation... why?
>
> See above.
>
> Best,
> Borek

Hope it helps,

Roy

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