Search engine anomaly between different languages


January 7th, 2007 by Ryan Unger   |   1,682 views

Oddly enough, the google results change between the different languages that you search in. Google seems to give preference to similar language pages.

For instance, if you search “‘flash lite’ clock” on google.com, the result 1 of 72,300 is an article about the Chumby on Scott’s Blog about the Chumby being an alarm clock on steroids (perfect description by the way).

However, when you search for “‘flash lite’ clock” using google.de, Scott’s Blog does not come up until the third result. The result 1 of 71,400 is a German Flash forum page referring to “‘WS World Clock’ ist eine Flash Lite 1.1…

p.s. The searches were done around 4:30pm EST on Sunday, January 7th.





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