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I've found this to be consistent behaviour with Google. The number of search results tend to be totally unreliable. I don't know if they use the same search alg
by ajani 12y ago
I've found this to be consistent behaviour with Google. The number of search results tend to be totally unreliable. I don't know if they use the same search algorithm for gmail, but the same problem occurs there as well. Initially it might say 1-50 of 100 results, go to the second page and suddenly it's 50-100 of 2000. And on the next page 100-150 of "many".
Google search-hit count has never been fully accurate - I say this empirically from use over the years, and having tried to use the number of hits in some random experiment I can no longer remember.
- vtlynch 12y agoGoogle acknowledges this: https://support.google.com/gsa/answer/2672285?hl=en https://support.google.com/gsa/answer/2672285?hl=en I remember seeing a more in depth article about this but cant find it at the moment.
- Chinjut 12y agoSo apparently it is possible to get an accurate result count (for up to 1 million results) using "rc = 1"? Does anyone have an examples illustrating this behavior (I can't seem to contrive one where it makes a difference)?