asher02 - 7:32 am on Apr 5, 2007 (gmt 0)

tedster wrote "you always seem to bang into an "omitted results" link before your reach #1,000."

But it make sense to deliver only 1000 results as we all know that 90% of the people will not go beyond the 20 first results. So keeping the main index fat & slow just that you can say "I have the biggest" is an idea that most of the search engine have abandoned long time ago.