Philosopher - 2:15 pm on Aug 15, 2005 (gmt 0)

Yeah, going by what the number of results the engines say they find is not the best measure. G has long stated this is an approximation. In addition, G's initial # is almost always heavily inflated as most times I run a search the initial "results returned" number changes significantly (downward) as I click through into deeper results.

I don't run enough searches on a regular basis to know if this is true at Yahoo as well though.