Google Query Contamination.... Are you seeing this??

[EGOL]

ahhh.... now I might understand where "ducky" comes from! 

[JustDucky]

Egol - I am a layman when it comes to SEO.   I began noticing strange results around 3 weeks ago.  I was not observant enough to begin to define the issue and did not think to run your experiment.  I believe my results began to change (or changed more frequently) around the time of the March 23, algo update.  Hope this helps.

[Mcarle]

Google has been doing this with adverts for a while, I have been in the same room with a person, on the same "page" & seen totally different ads for each of us... (I guess he never searched for high healed shoes)

Another thing I have noticed the MORE I search for a term the MORE it pops up in ads...

If I search once for red chair then no biggie, but when I spent an entire evening searching for a chaise lounge....I got ads for that damned chaise lounge for weeks....

SERPS have been different by location for years now.

I don't doubt at all that SERPS are going to be even more customized by what you "search for"

[EGOL]

I saw "kayak" in your query and thought that you might know about this type of ducky....

http://www.komar.org/faq/travel/vacation/green-river-rafting/rafting-day-4/2009_06_05_6963-green-river-rafting.jpg

[EGOL]

I wonder if some of the chaise lounge ads might have been triggered by remarketing cookies?

[KTaylor]

This has happened to me recently as well. However for me it was for seemingly more disparate queries related to coupons. I don't remember the specific merchants but I had searched for something like 'finish line coupons' and subsequently searched for 'target coupons' and was still seeing ads for finishline coupons on the SERP for the latter query. Clearly, they have some work to do on this.

[Alex-Harford]

Interesting, but like you, I hope they don't make something like this permanent. Increasingly we're being treated like we're stupid and can't do anything for ourselves.

Here in the UK there's no sign of it. I've tried UK specific county names as well as the Georgia then guitars combo originally mentioned, in Chrome and Firefox.

I get all sorts of strange adverts that don't fit my interests or searches at all - for the last two or three weeks I've been getting a Muslim dating website in Ad placements on my work and home PC - both have different Google accounts. I haven't searched for religious terms, dating, or anything at all I can think of that would be related.

[Mcarle]

I just ran a test on this last night:

I used two ipads with safari both in the same room using the same wireless network.

1. Searched for Miami coffeehouses, Miami bookstores, Miami hotels & such, THEN I searched for "steakhouse"

2.  Searched for Chicago coffeehouses, Chicago bookstores, Chicago hotels & such, THEN I searched for "steakhouse"

On the "Steakhouse" search the first matched with a local SF steakhouse, then the next TWO were for Chicago & Miami steakhouses, then the places was our local city of Oakland, & the last few results also matched for national steakhouse chains...

So yes, it looks like Google is in fact adapting the SERPS to your personal search strings....

[EGOL]

I agree, it stinks up my SERPs.  I don't want my queries blended.

[EGOL]

Thanks!  That's a new variant - and I didn't know that it works on Safari.