From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Thu Jun 19 2003 - 17:48:18 MDT
--- Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:
> Have we been limited by Google?
> NOTE THIS: Even though Google has 713,000 results
> for this search, you and I
> can only see 998 of them. Google physically will not
> serve any more pages up
> than that for that particular search. Even though
> there are another 712,002
> results for that search, we cannot see any more!!
> Google simply just does not
> serve any more pages past that number.
If this is the "limit" they're referring to - no,
that's not a significant limitation. It's designed
for
specific searches. If you want a rough count of the
number of hits, that's what the 713k figure is for;
if you're looking for something specific, over 1,000
results is just waaaay too many hits to crawl through
manually in their opinion. They enforce said opinion,
encouraging crawlers to try more exact searches, by
cutting people off there. (If you really want to see
all 713k hits, you can script queries to do it, if
you have almost any knowledge of programming. If you
don't, you're not properly equipped to handle large
amounts of data like that anyway, so you need to
upgrade yourself first.)
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