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This is absolutely trash and essentially false advertising. Saying there are 1M+ results but then only having 400 viewable is straight up misrepresenting your p
by riversflow 4y ago
This is absolutely trash and essentially false advertising. Saying there are 1M+ results but then only having 400 viewable is straight up misrepresenting your product.
> That’s hundreds of results and usually enough for deep research needs. You can enter a related query to refine your search and learn more.
is both patronizing and offensive. 400 result is 4 pages of 100 hits, the way literally anyone who does research on google is going to use it(I haven't used a 10 hit Google page in well over a decade). Not only that, I can browse through 4 pages in like 5 minutes, really really inadequate for "deep research needs", and really anything beyond cursory convenience linking. I've completely dismissed Google Search for in depth topics as a result because of the multiple occasions I tried in vain to find a page I'd visited previously with Google (that I ended up finding again with browser history) that just couldn't be found, even going back and trying to make a search that works.
> and most people are not going to be able to go through all millions of those.
this is totally fair but 400 is just way way too few, if you bumped it up to 4k that would be a step in the right direction. Additionally, by my thinking, Google is missing out on the people who are willing to wade through thousands of search results to find quality content, as it stands now those pages have very little way to break into the top 400, but a complex search term followed by a user wading deep into the results to find a specific page where they go and don't return would seem to show any extremely strong signal that that specific page should probably be ranked somewhat higher.
- IshKebab 4y agoThis is a very bizarre comment. They aren't saying there are 1M+ results that you can access. Who would even want to do that? The number is to give you an idea of how narrow your search was. This reminds me of when I and a couple of other people watched someone look through 10 whole pages of Google results. Totally insane. But it got even crazier - he actually found the thing he was looking for on the 10th page! Doubly unbelievable.
- jacobolus 4y agoI regularly look through 10+ pages of results in Google scholar and Google books. (Google web search has gotten much worse so I don't much use it anymore, but I used to look 10+ pages into Google web searches a decade ago.)
- dontknowwhyihn 4y agoI think it maxes out at around 20 pages. You definitely won’t get to page 30
- tomrod 4y ago> They aren't saying there are 1M+ results that you can access.Who would even want to do that? What I've learned about edge cases: I'm not nearly creative enough to think of them all. Do you think Google Search is a product or a service to searchers? - If a product: it should advertise precisely what it supports. - If a service: it should strive for accuracy. What is is today: a hook for advertising, most of which is noise. Searching effectively has become difficult, and few search ads have context (I don't look at ad links for purchasing). I'm probably not the median user, either, but perhaps I belong to a useful subpopulation.