SEOstats\Google::getSerps('search_term', 10) slightly different when searching from "Sydney, Australia" versus "Melbourne, Australia"

[jamesspittal]

I am noticing when calling SEOstats\Google::getSerps('search_term', 10);, the search results are (very slightly) different when performed from Melbourne, Australia (on my local computer) versus Sydney, Australia.

General information on this phenomenon is available here:

https://gofishdigital.com/google-results-change-location/
http://searchengineland.com/localize-google-search-results-239768

Other than using a proxy (such as Squid) by configuring CURLOPT_PROXY and CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD or originating my requests from Melbourne, Australia - is there any way to solve this?

The second article link provided above seems to indicate that adding &near=cityname to the query string request might help to return the results expected for your local state/city.

[jamesspittal]

Tested appending near=Melbourne to the request and the results did change slightly, but they are still not consistent with what I'm seeing when searching from a clean browser request (no cookies, no history, logged out, incognito, etc.).