Rinne, Nathan (ESC) wrote:
to page 4, and all of a sudden, up at the top, it reads "Books 31 - 38 of 38"! What happened to the 215 books )
I suspect this is the result of their "de-duping". They do this also with web pages, but it's less obvious. With web pages, they retrieve 1000 pages out of your search (presumably the ones with the highest page rank), then they de-duplicate that group. So although there is a theoretical limit of 1000 pages that you can actually view (out of the hundreds of thousands of "hits" that they list), in fact you often are only able to view many fewer because some have been removed as duplicates. This is rarely noticed because few users attempt to go beyond the first few pages. (I once saw an explanation of this on Google itself, but cannot find it now.) kc -- ----------------------------------- Karen Coyle / Digital Library Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kcoyle.net ph.: 510-540-7596 skype: kcoylenet fx.: 510-848-3913 mo.: 510-435-8234 ------------------------------------
