[Lynx-dev] Google hits browser dependent; why? (was: Lynx-dev Digest, Vol 50, Issue 1)

[David Woolley]

Dietmar Janetzko wrote:
> 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?

You will have to ask Google, although I doubt that they will answer. 
Are you sure that you don't have a cookie set in any of the browsers and 
that using the same browser with forced refresh produces the same result 
each time?  Where the results computing platform sensitive?  Was Lynx 
set to send exactly the same Accept-Language header as the other browsers?

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