[Google Search API] Returns different organic results than manual Google search for the same query

[gabriela-serpapi]

A customer reported that the Google Search API is returning a different set of organic results compared to a manual Google search for the same query.

Query:

• susan w fletcher obit

Playground:
https://serpapi.com/playground?q=susan+w+fletcher+obit&location=Virginia,+United+States&gl=us&hl=en&no_cache=true

What I find:

• The customer (located in the US) consistently sees one set of results when searching manually.
• I was able to reproduce the customer’s manual results using an incognito browser session from Argentina, suggesting the manual SERP is not heavily personalized.
• However, we returning different results which are still relevant to the query, and some links overlap with the manual search, but several expected results are missing.

I created this issue so we can investigate this more deeply and verify whether we’re missing something on our side, or if this is simply a difference in how Google serves results to our infrastructure compared to browser searches. Thank you!

Internal links: Intercom | Search Inspect 1

[report-tracking-bot]

A User Report Tracking spreadsheet has been created for this issue for internal tracking.