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Google and Yahoo falsifying hit count?
If you search for 'Google' in either of the search engines Google states it has found 1,990,000,000 results and Yahoo states 5,830,000,000 results. However, if you actually try and go deeper into the search results Yahoo doesn't let you go beyond page 100 (1000 hits) and Google only gets to 564 results. Why would this be so?
Note: This is after repeating the search with the initially omitted results.
Note: the above number were for google.co.uk. Google.com seems to stop the count at 100 pages (same as Yahoo)
2 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Possibly because of the large database required to index so many pages is not feasible. Most pages pass 100 could be completely irrelevant to what you were searching for anyways.
- 1 decade ago
They might just place a limit on how many results are viewable. I don't see how falsifying total results would benefit them in any way. What matters is quality of the results not the quantity.
