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Hi Everyone,
I have noticed 1 thing my position i evry google is different.
OK, in naional versions of many countries my position is about the same, however in google.com is much lower... Don't googles use the same

database? Why is that?
Greetings

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Good catch — and thanks to , and for the early pointers. Below are focused, practical tests and webmaster actions to diagnose why your rank differs between the global results and country TLDs, plus fixes you can apply.

To reproduce the difference

  • Use a clean session (incognito or signed out) and disable personalization with pws=0.
  • Change the country/language bias via URL params: add &gl=PL for Poland and &hl=pl for Polish. Example:
    curl -s "https://www.google.com/search?q=your+query&gl=PL&hl=pl&pws=0" -A "Mozilla/5.0"
  • Compare site:yourdomain.com your+term on each regional search to spot indexing differences.
  • Use a VPN or an online remote browser from the target country to confirm real user-facing results.

What to inspect on your site

  • Check whether you use a country code TLD (ccTLD) or a generic TLD; ccTLDs implicitly target a country.
  • Verify hreflang implementation if you have language/region variants. Misconfigured hreflang can send wrong signals.
  • Look at indexed content differences and canonical tags that might cause one index to show different pages.
  • Review Search Console data filtered by country to see where impressions and clicks are actually coming from.

Quick fixes and strategy

  • For global visibility use a gTLD or set no country target in Search Console; for country-specific results keep ccTLDs and localize content.
  • Implement correct hreflang and consistent canonicals.
  • Build local signals: content in the local language, local backlinks, and local schema where relevant.
  • Re-test after changes; indexing and ranking shifts can take days to weeks.

Further reading: Google’s guidance on how search works and on managing multi‑regional/multilingual sites is useful background: How Google Search works and Manage multi‑regional and multilingual sites.

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Member Avatar for stymiee

Each version of Google uses a different algorithm. Mainly to provide local sites first.

Member Avatar for Dani

In addition to that, the Google database is so big, it needs distributed computing in order to deliver those lightning fast search results. And there's just so much data it takes lots of time to propagate to all of the google datacenters.

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The varied ranking/search results are due to different data centers. This specific variation not only happens with Google, but also with Yahoo.

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