search engine variations by location

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 (AT) melindaspenpals (DOT) 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 (AT) melindaspenpals (DOT) 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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