# Is Google the same for everyone? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 29, 2011, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-google-the-same-for-everyone/607710 "2011-12-29T07:55:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2011, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-google-the-same-for-everyone/607710/2 "2011-12-29T08:28:37Z")
This question came up in one of my first threads at SDMB: > [@Trivia Challenge: Famous septets](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trivia-challenge-famous-septets/520632/39): > > [QUOTE=Karen Lingel] > I think your Google works differently than my Google… Google _does_ vary its results almost unpredictably (which I find annoying). In this case, I don’t think it’s cookies or other Google secrets, but just geographical switching based on ISP. I got same results with another machine, BUT a very different list when I accessed Google search through an anonymizing proxy server! In _that_ search the septet I think I spoiled for you was #1, the one with a possible word from “Septet L” was #2, my “septet I” was #3, and the #1-2-5 septet Google is so proud of for my region (though I’d never heard of it) didn’t even make the Top 10. Yes, I suppose I should be able to figure out what country you live in, if you keep posting Google search ranks! There is no privacy anymore, get over it. :eek: [/QUOTE] (But last time I tried such an experiment with [this server](http://freeproxyserver.net/), it failed to cope with Google’s scripting. Anyone know a better free proxy server ?) BTW, the post above links to a thread of riddles, some of which haven’t yet been Spoilered! --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-google-the-same-for-everyone/607710)._