Hi Andrzej,
This was a very interesting experiment -- thanks for sharing the results
with us.
The last range was the maximum in this case - Google wouldn't display
any hit above 652 (which I find curious, too - because the total number
of hits is, well, significantly higher - and Google
Dawid Weiss wrote:
Hi Andrzej,
This was a very interesting experiment -- thanks for sharing the
results with us.
The last range was the maximum in this case - Google wouldn't display
any hit above 652 (which I find curious, too - because the total
number of hits is, well, significantly
Hi,
I made an experiment with Google, to see if they use a similar approach.
I find the results to be most interesting. I selected a query which is
guaranteed to give large result sets, but is more complicated than a
single term query: http com.
The total number of hits (approx) is
The total number of hits (approx) is 2,780,000,000. BTW, I find it
curious that the last 3 or 6 digits always seem to be zeros ... there's
some clever guesstimation involved here. The fact that Google Suggest is
able to return results so quickly would support this suspicion.
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