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That's because Google always inflates result numbers, until you get to the last page... for me, that last page is 5 and there is 46 results.


I've often wondered why they do this; what's the point in offering misleading results?

For instance, there have been times I've searched for something, and it gives back a lot of results, plus it has a pager with seemingly over 50 pages in it.

But - if I say "jump to the last page", suddenly the pager only shows four pages and I'm at the end of page 4...

What the heck is up with that? Sometimes, some really great information is buried under all the SEO'd to hell-and-back crap at the top. That's the info I want, and I don't care if the website owner cares about SEO or whatnot - because they are likely a small-time user (or they just have a very old page or something that hasn't been updated in 20 years)...


I always assumed that google shows the result page long before the search algorithm finished its work, making that number at best a guesstimate.




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