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Ok. It's not exponential instead it's the sum of all n's. 3 keywords with 10 results each on its own, provided no other keyword was part of the result, will ret
by smusamashah 8y ago
Ok. It's not exponential instead it's the sum of all n's. 3 keywords with 10 results each on its own, provided no other keyword was part of the result, will return 30 results when used together.
- eesmith 8y agoAnd ranked. Plus, "Most people only look at the first page, or first few pages of results, so it doesn't really matter, does it?"
- smusamashah 8y agoIf there are hundreds of results then sure I will not bother going through many pages. But if i am looking hard and see that there are only 2 pages, I might checkout all of them.
- eesmith 8y agoIt simply doesn't matter how many pages are returned as a count. Most people - indeed, nearly all - only look at the first page or two, no matter what. (PaulHoule pointed out that "researching patents" is one exception.) Google reports "532 000 000" results for 'chrome desktop'. Yet Google is pretty popular. People still use Google since the results they want are usually on the first page. Indeed, that's why people switched from AltaVista to Google; AltaVista often required trawling through tens of pages to find a good match.