But really, as far as any non-Googler is concerned, there's 400 actual results and a random number generator that generated "9,890,000,000" for that search. It

But really, as far as any non-Googler is concerned, there's 400 actual results and a random number generator that generated "9,890,000,000" for that search. It's not a million miles from hotel and flights websites saying "37 people are looking at this page right now!" It's a dark pattern to increase engagement. A pretty innocuous one in Google's case, but it is a little deceptive.