Big Confusion - Help Me Out Please

same google? I mean google.co.uk shows different results from google.com, for example.

Personalized search results.

oh and btw It's showing as a proper organic result, not a bookmarked (starred result)

You're better off checking your rankings with tools that do this rather than just doing the search yourself. There's a pretty decent rank checker at seobook.com that works with Firefox.

At PubCon, Matt Cutts from Google said there is strong lobbying in Google to introduce a new ranking factor into the algorithm. The new ranking factor has to do with how fast a site or page loads. Matt described this as one of his 'what to expect in 2010′ bullet points in his presentation yesterday evening in Las Vegas.
He explained that Google's co-founders want searching to be real fast, as if you are flipping through a magazine. Part of this is making sure faster web pages rank better than slower ones. Matt explained that page speed is a factor in the search ad AdWords quality score and there is currently a strong push to make it a factor in the organic ranking algorithm. Matt basically implied that in 2010, it will be one additional factor.

Google "knows" what you want to see. In this case you want to see your site. I don't fully understand it but it has something to do with being signed in on one of your google accounts, such as gmail and cookies and who knows what else. Same thing happens to me. When I am signed into my gmail account my sites come up on top in google. When I'm not signed in and I clear my cookies I'm not even on page one sometimes.

George Wright

IBSR?

(Interest Based Search Results.) You do not need to be logged in for it to be in effect. It is IP based. I can do a search on my two computers side by side, neither logged in to google and both with clean caches and get two different page 1s with the same search. My sister on a third computer in the same room gets a third. The guy across the street gets a forth. All in all on this street, checking 15 computers, only two get identical page 1s. The average over lap is 2 sites (but they are in different positions).
I had heard google was going to take the top 50 results and put them in a hat and return them scrambled so no one site was number 1 on any but one out of 50 searches. (Figuring the top 50 results were all worthy of a position one return.) Thats how rumors get started. Lol. I had also heard they were going to return results by personality profile of the major computer user by IP and had 37 personalities mapped out.
The things a person hears. go figure. (My way of saying: I dont know, i guess.)