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| From: | Thomas Dickey |
| Subject: | Re: [Lynx-dev] Re: Lynx-dev Digest, Vol 50, Issue 1 |
| Date: | Sun, 2 Mar 2008 10:14:06 -0500 (EST) |
On Sun, 2 Mar 2008, Dietmar Janetzko wrote:
Hi out there, it seems that the overal number of hits returnend upon a Google search operation differs between browsers (Lynx, IE, Firefox). Does anybdy know the reason for this?
I'd guess the request gets passed to different servers based on the user-agent header, and that affects the part of Google's server-farm
the provides the answer. (Giving the same query from a different network address also can give different answers from Google). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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