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**shonkyboy** · 09:45 AM

Hi - i have bit of a confusing situatiion when checking the results of searches in IE on my main machine (the one i work on mostly).

If i google - for instance 'ricoh click' - one of my sites comes up in IE at no 2 www.ricohclicksolutions.co.uk - I told the client the good news and he said - no its no 7 !

So i checked again in FF and sure as eggs is eggs - it was no 7 - checked on a laptop and the same - no 7 .

This was the same in all other browsers( as in position 7) - i even checked in IE tester and they came up as no 2 in all other versions . This is the same for another company i am working on - for 'rated tradesperson' - www.decision2day.com comes up no1 - at the side - it does say (178 Visits) - but in FF or on another computer it appears nowhere.

Is IE indexing locally the sites i visit and putting them to the top? if so this is giving misleading information back to me when i am doing a check on the SERPS. And if this is the case - how do i turn this feature off?
Many thanks.

UPDATE****
Well i signed out of google as the user i was and now the site comes in the correct order - so it must be when i am signed into google - somehow it puts my sites to the top of the SERPS - strangley - I cant find preference setting to modify this behaviour.
Has anyone got any views/comments on this

**chrishirst** · 11-23-2009, 09:48 AM

It's not in the slightest bit "unusual" in fact, it's absolutely perfectly usual.

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**shonkyboy** · 11-23-2009, 09:55 AM

Thanks Chris - did you see the update though - as soon as i signed out of the Google account it went back to No 7 (or 6) - I know the rankings can fluctuate and even with locality - but as the richoh click sites is based in leeds - i would have expected to see the same there.
It was something to do with me being singed into a particular Google account - if i sign in again - i see the same results as before. It looks like it was the Personalised Search thing that was targeted to my preferences - and it looks like its the Google toolbar thats the culprit - thats why i couldnt find the preferences in the Google Account.

**chrishirst** · 11-23-2009, 01:04 PM

There is several things going on. Being signed in to a Google account is only one of them.

The country (IP) you are browsing from, the Google "cookie" on the machine, the datacentre answering the query even down to the level of the server cluster in the satacentre may well affect what results are shown.

**arnabme** · 11-24-2009, 03:21 AM

Spot on Chris as usual.

**bigcat1967** · 12-05-2009, 08:26 AM

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The country (IP) you are browsing from, the Google "cookie" on the machine, the datacentre answering the query even down to the level of the server cluster in the satacentre may well affect what results are shown.

This is why I go to this forum. I follow Chris around to learn...and the wealth of information he has is incredible! Thanks again Chris!!!

**FenceGuy** · 12-06-2009, 11:56 AM

WOW! I didn't even realize this was going on as I was signed into my account. Very good info....

**chrishirst** · 12-06-2009, 02:44 PM

http://www.webmaster-talk.com/the-go...ed-search.html

**aliza147** · 12-06-2009, 07:26 PM

Well as you are doing SEO for this site, that's why you are finding the unusual results, just wait for some week and you will find final position in Google.