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If Google determines that 99.999% of the people will never go beyond result 400, and 99.998% of the people find the result they were looking for in these 400 re
by leokennis 4y ago
If Google determines that 99.999% of the people will never go beyond result 400, and 99.998% of the people find the result they were looking for in these 400 results, then what’s the use of showing those users there are “about 200,000,000 results”?
- wolpoli 4y agoYes, and if 99.999% of the people will never go beyond result 400, then logically, it wouldn't be tough for Google to offer the 0.001% the ability to go beyond result 400. I am sure those determined users wouldn't mind waiting a few more seconds for Google to compute those results.
- debesyla 4y agoThis does make me wonder: what would the actual statistic for 400+ theoretical page visits be? Would there be a single person in a world who would ever reach such page? (I mean, damn, if every page shows 10 results, there would be 400 clicks in the same page + 4000 lines of results. You would need another search engine to sift through such amount of results in any sane amount of time...)
- wolpoli 4y agoThere is a good chance that someone could get to the 400th page if there were around a total of 8000-10000 hits for an for a obscure topic. It would be a multi-day effort, and I am sure that person would wish that they could search within the result or group the result by some properties.
- tomrod 4y agoThe question us non-Googlers are asking, right here ^ How does it serve the user? If it doesn't, what is the purpose?