Google appears to have millions of search results, but you can't actually see them all



Searching popular words on Google can yield millions to hundreds of millions of results. You can usually find the information you need in the first half, but even if you want to dig deep, you won't be able to see search results such as the 'millions of items'.

Google's “million's of search results” are not being served in the later pages search results

https://serpapi.com/blog/googles-millions-of-search-results-are-not-being-served-in-the-later-pages-search-results/

For example, searching for 'coffee' on Google will return 'approximately 306 million' results.



When you actually read the page more and more, it ends on the 27th page. After all, 262 search results were displayed. As the message at the end says, similar pages were filtered out by Google to get better search results. Therefore, click 'Search again from here' to display all search results.



I'm back on top again. Search results for 'coffee' have increased to 'about 349 million'.



And I read more and more pages, and I was able to exceed 27 pages, but this time I finished with 47 pages. The number of displayed items was 469.



Here, use the parameter 'num' to change the number of search results displayed on one page. Added '&num=100' to maximize the number displayed in the URL ' https://www.google.com/search?q=coffee ' when searching for the word 'coffee'. The number of hits is the same as the first time, 'about 300,600'.



However, the number of cases that could be displayed is 264, and there is a gap of 2 cases.



The original article was written by Justin O'Hara of 'SerpApi', which handles various search APIs such as Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yandex, Baidu, etc. 'Not all search results are returned to users, but these results can be obtained using SerpApi's Google Search API,' concludes the appeal of SerpApi.

According to social news site Hacker News, `` It is only the blog author who misunderstands that all Google search results are provided to the user who performed the search. It is clear that it is impossible to actually obtain it, ' commented. However, ' The author's writing is certainly bad, but I disagree with 'It's obvious that you can't get 2 billion search results.' Search results are because you can actually see them, otherwise it's just marketing. or statistics. '

In addition, on GitHub, Wikipedia, the Library of Congress site, etc., there are reports that an error occurs and access is not possible when trying to directly access the latter half of the search results . The user who made the report commented, ``Personally, there is no problem if you understand that some of the results of XX hits will be provided.''

Google's “million's of search results” are not being served | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33066399

in Web Service, Posted by logc_nt