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This is mostly a technical limitation and has been placed since 1998. 99.99% of search queries won't go beyond result 100 then what's the point of showing the r
by summerlight 4y ago
This is mostly a technical limitation and has been placed since 1998. 99.99% of search queries won't go beyond result 100 then what's the point of showing the result 10000000 other than technological demonstration?
- salawat 4y agoIt's called "showing an accurate representation of reality" Ya know, that whole thing indexes are for by definition. Oh, but if they did that they wouldn't have a convenient way to implement dropping something from public view either, so there's that.
- inetknght 4y agoTechnical limitation or not, it is still a lie.
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y agoIt's not a lie. "There are eleventy badillion results" is a true statement, not a promise to show you all of them.
- xdavidliu 4y agoBy that same logic, businesses can advertise "sale, many items 90% off" but when you show up, nothing is 90% off, and you could argue that the business only claimed that the items existed, they never said they would actually sell it to you.
- amelius 4y agoI'd be surprised if this didn't actually happen.
- pessimizer 4y agoThere are laws (at least in the US) about advertising sales that prevent it from happening.
- tshaddox 4y agoExcept that the word "sale" literally means that you can buy something.
- jjcon 4y agoSimilarly I think most would expect result to imply retrievability.
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- tshaddox 4y agoHow so? It makes perfect sense to say "there are 1 million results but you can only access 1,000 of them" but it's complete nonsense to say "we are selling 1 million items but we are only selling 1,000 of them."
- inetknght 4y ago> It makes perfect sense to say "there are 1 million results but you can only access 1,000 of them" Except that's _not_ what Google is saying. Google is saying there are 1 million results and won't tell you that you can only access the first N.
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y agoWhere do you see Google's implied or explicit promise to provide with you every result they've found?
- inetknght 4y ago> Where do you see Google's implied promise to provide with you every result The implied promise is the button that says "Search". 1. It's a search engine. Searching is useless if it doesn't provide results. 2. Searching with other tools works. Use `grep` or your computer's local search feature and it will give you all of the results. 3. If I go through my old email, I can download literally every email. I can search literally every email, for hundreds of thousands of email.
- wolpoli 4y agoWe wouldn't tolerate a business advertising "up to 90% off" if there doesn't exist at least one item that is 90% off. Businesses can't point to an item that is 30% off and claim that 30% off is a subset of 90% off.
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- amelius 4y agoYou could test that hypothesis by publishing some long hash on several hundred pages, then search for it.
- 0x000xca0xfe 4y agoI believe you can no longer google hash values? It used to work years ago but I just searched for "6867d9167683fb8f42558a81ad107f5b" and got zero results. That is the MD5 hash for "asd3" and this is short enough that it should be on one of those MD5 web pages... Update: Wow, zero results for "2585ecdb9a753ca54a96fae62bfda433", the MD5 hash of "r68". They must be filtering them out on purpose. Update 2: Googling "2585ecdb9a753ca54a96fae62bfda433" now turns up this exact 10 minute old comment, so your approach might work if the hash is embedded within "real" content.
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- checkyoursudo 4y agoWhen I search for "How do elephants know what time it is", and Google tells me there are "Ungefähr 429.000.000 Ergebnisse" (about 429 million results), what is Google actually telling me? There are 429,000,000 pages that are related to my search? There are 4.29x10^8 pages that have, what, one or more of those words on them? Seems more like a lie than like the truth.
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y agoIn the 53 mins since you checked, google has apparently found another 4.3M results for this query :)
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- nmeagent 4y agoHow is this not a modern flavor of bait and switch?
- _jal 4y agoIf I ran a store with a 10 digit inventory of tools and advertised that, but refused to offer more than a tiny fraction of them because it was too hard to offer more, what do you call that?
- AlbertCory 4y agoIf you ran a store, you probably would not have a billion items in your inventory, and if you did, not all of them would really be available at any one time. And most likely your web page wouldn't be able to show them all, either.
- butterNaN 4y agoSee: Metaphors
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- AlbertCory 4y agoThe replies on this thread illustrate why "bike shedding" is an evergreen [1]. Maybe they leave that in the results so people will focus on trivia, instead of antitrust and other issues that actually matter. "Look! Over there! They're claiming there are 9 billion answers and you can't see them all." Clever. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality
- Dylan16807 4y agoI think you're failing to respond to the strongest version of what someone is saying... Home depot has roughly 36000 items stocked in a store. Try using that number for _jal's argument.
- summerlight 4y agoWell... "running an offline store 101"? In stores based on modern supply chain you usually don't always have gazillions of shelves to display every single items you have so there are multiple tiers of storage from super sized warehouses to small local storage.
- saalweachter 4y agoEh, it's useful for a power user to know which way to refine. Searching for [product 1234] has "about" 157 million results -> narrow the search -> [product 1234 bookshelf] has about 3.4 million results. Searching for [product 1234defg] has "about" 280 results -> widen the search -> [product 1234 defg] has about 54000 results. If you just show a number that's around 400 for essentially every query, you don't have any feedback on whether to widen or narrow the search if you don't see the result in the first couple of pages.
- ricardo81 4y agoMakes sense, I wonder if G can even possibly display the accurate number since by default it's including synonymic variations of your query words.