Google weirdness

[karohemd]

Last night I decided to google for "karohemd" and was surprised to find that the first hits linked to various websites of mine (domain, deviantART, flickr and photoboxgallery) and other sites with links to my photos, only then came German fashion links.
As I wanted to post about it, I just did the same search from work (same version of Firefox, identical settings) and there were only links about checked shirts on the first five result pages.
The image search came up with the Industrial Angel portrait of puddingcat and the Rock Album Cover portrait of nurse_liz from devART in the first line, though.

Does Google take the frequency of page calls from the local computer into account? I access my sites more often from home than from work so that would make sense.

What does a search for the single term "karohemd" turn up on your ends?

ETA: Aha! Found it. There is a setting that's different. On my work computer, I had set "Display Google tips and messages in" to German and when I changed it to English, I got the same results as last night. Note that "Search only for pages written in" wasn't set, either. The interface language shouldn't make a difference to the results but apparently it does. Hm.

Comments

[eddyfate.livejournal.com]

My Blingo search turns up much the same as your first search, and Blingo uses Google architecture.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

It seems the interface language matters when it shouldn't. Ta.

[dougs.livejournal.com]

I get chiefly yourself in google.co.uk and google.com, and chiefly articles about clothing from google.de

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

It seems the interface language matters when it shouldn't. Ta.

[oedipamaas49.livejournal.com]

I've been getting very different search results from Hungary than from Cambridge. This seems to happen even if I'm using google.com with an english-language interface. it's mildly irritating to end up with hungarian pages all the time, and I wish google would explain exactly what they do somewhere.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

*nods* A while ago, madmoses complained that he couldn't access video.google.com, only .de from Germany...

[duncanneko.livejournal.com]

I get your flickr, LJ etc.

I know there's Google Personalized Search, but that looks like it's opt/log-in based, rather than automatic.

Goodness knows, really...

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Found the culprit, see ETA above.

[lineoutrecords.livejournal.com]

Results were same as yours.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

It seems the interface language matters when it shouldn't. Ta.

[jupiter-jones.livejournal.com]

ich hab das gleiche raus was du schon beschrieben hast. und stelle mir plötzlich die frage: warum überhaupt "karohemd"?

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Hast du meine Sammlung gesehen? ;o)

[jupiter-jones.livejournal.com]

du hast eine SAMMLUNG an karohemden? nein habe ich nicht.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Hab fast keine anderen. Drei schwarze, ein zartrosa, ein zartblaues, die anderen sind alle kariert. ;o)

[jupiter-jones.livejournal.com]

hehe DAS erklärt natürlich :)
und woher kommt ozzy? wenn ich schonmal am fragen bin ;)