ITunes Search API returns Different Rating Count

Hi everyone,
When I view this item (iBooks) from iTunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/ibooks/id364709193?mt=8
I got the rating like this:
Stars 3.5 | 79 ratings (Average Rating For Current Version)
Stars 3.5 | 9264 ratings (Average Rating For All the Versions)
But when using the the Search API https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=364709193, I got:
"averageUserRatingForCurrentVersion":3.5, "userRatingCountForCurrentVersion":608,
"averageUserRating":3.5, "userRatingCount":83819
The User Rating Cont numbers don't match: 79 vs 608 and 9264 vs 83819.
Can anyone explain the differences?
Thanks in advance,
Robin

Hey Robin - just saw this and I've been digging through this stuff the last few days. I think I know the answer to your question.. its that you have the canada store in the web page reference and in the search API you arent limiting it to just Canada..
So esentially you're seeing the difference between this:
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/ibooks/id364709193?mt=8
and this:
https://itunes.apple.com/app/ibooks/id364709193?mt=8
Drew

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