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by persistent 2468 days ago
These results are neither hermetic nor repeatable since the ranking will be polluted by searches and clicks coming from your browser in the past, you account on other browsers, other people using your IP, other people in your region, etc. There is no pure function mapping a search term to a result list, and the desire for such a thing is too silly to take seriously.
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If most folks are getting similar rankings then the impact of the pollution is minimal though.

Are you getting different results?