[thelist] Google results report way over the number of indexed results

Chris Hayes chris at lwcdial.net
Fri Dec 2 06:46:49 CST 2005


Ohhhh, is it possible it has found 10,000 results.

That's a duplication factor of 10... scary.  


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lee Kowalkowski" <lee.kowalkowski at lycos.com>

> From: "Chris Hayes" <chris at lwcdial.net>
> > 
> > OK, but there are only 1000 pages, not 10,000. so it seems odd.
> > 
> > If nobody else has a similar expereince I'll have to think it's
> > site-specific, and then I'll be asked to fix it :)
> 
> Did you mean pages, or results?
> 
> Well:
> 
> You're only allowed to see 1000 results:
> http://www.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=484&topic=359
> 
> And lists shrink as you page through them if there are duplicates:
> http://www.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=499&topic=359
> 
> - LK




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