How does Google count and estimate the number of a search results? For example when I search “stackoverflow,” it counts 2,910,000 results.
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How does Google count and estimate the number of a search results? For example when I search “stackoverflow,” it counts 2,910,000 results.
Probably the most definitive article on this:
http://searchengineland.com/why-google-cant-count-results-properly-53559
as it’s interesting to note that taking stuff out can actually sometimes give more results(!!).
From a Google developer (Matt Cutts, head of the web spam team):
“We try to be very clear that our results estimates are just that–estimates. In theory we could spend cycles on that aspect of our system, but in practice we have a lot of other things to work on, and more accurate results estimates is lower on the list than lots of other things”