Obviously it's just an estimate so a relatively minor variation from 273M to 272M is perfectly reasonable and expected. But the issue is that the API sometimes gives vastly different results from the web search (sometimes by a factor of 10 or more) and in this case of sarah vs. "sarah" the results are not even consistent within the API.
On Oct 19, 2:31 pm, Jeremy Geerdes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, as I mentioned before, there is a known bug with the > estimatedResultCount returned from the API such that it can be wildly > inconsistent and inaccurate. That said, the estimated result tally > for Google itself does vary, from 273 million for sarah to 272 million > for "sarah". > > Jeremy R. Geerdes > Effective website design & development > Des Moines, IA > > For more information or a project quote:http://jgeerdes.home.mchsi.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Unless otherwise noted, any price quotes contained within this > communication are given in US dollars. > > If you're in the Des Moines, IA, area, check out Debra Heights > Wesleyan Church! > > On Oct 19, 2008, at 4:17 PM, Stealth wrote: > > > > > Here's an example using purely the API: > > >http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web?v=1.0&q=sarah > > gives 275M results > >http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web?v=1.0&q="sarah"; > > gives about 36M results > > > But perhaps tomorrow they may return the same estimatedResultCount. > > > You can also do this comparing the API to the Google website. Using > > the API will return a different number than the site. > > > On Oct 19, 1:33 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Can you please provide us w/a link? > > >> On 10/19/2008, Stealth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> No, there is no error message. The results are sometimes different > >>> using the API rather than using Google itself, but there is never an > >>> error. > > >>> On Oct 18, 7:18 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>>> Do you have an error message that I can run? > > >> -- > >> Xavier A. Mathews > >> Student/Developer/Web-Master > >> GG Client Based Tech Support Specialist > >> Hazel Crest Illinois > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> "Fear of a name, only increases fear of the thing itself." > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google AJAX API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-AJAX-Search-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
