Google Question

[IGotRealEstate]

Question: Lets say I live in Washington and type in minneapolis real estate to search for properties. Would my search results be differnet from which state or location that I'm located in. Reason being, I was talking to google a couple weeks ago about Google Advertising that I put on my site www.igotrealestate.com . They mentioned that my IP was coming from Virgina and I was questioning my ads since I'm located in Minneapolis. They said the ads are served up based on user IP location...does that mean search results do the same.. Anybody know

[Wayne Griggs]

Yes your search results are based off of different datacenters. Depending on which DC serves your area would determine the results you would see.

Example If you and I pulled up results for the same phrase my datacenter would show or could show different results then you do if we are on 2 different DCs

[Jim Messenger]

Jeff,
Typically search results do vary from each data center.
However, the difference is minor--maybe a couple of positions.