[LINK] Email Obfuscation Helps Spammers: Google returns 27 million results for "* at * dot com"

[Lea de Groot]

On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 08:16:01 +1000, Ivan Trundle wrote:
> Kim is using Google.com, Rick is using Google.com.au. Whilst it 
> shouldn't make any difference, it does. Oddly.

Local results have never been the same as general results. I don't know 
why either - I think they think they are being helpful.

Its possible to do a search in a time of flux, and get different 
results, because you have reached a different data centre at Google 
which is currently holding a different dataset.

And on top of that, Google is now doing 'personalisation' - they vary 
the results by person.

So, overall, we shouldn't expect to be able to get the same results as 
a person using a different history record from a different connection :(

Lea