who needs 1,000,000 search results?

[kch333]

Input" the " in search frame, and you can see it say: about 2,690,000,000 results.

Any other random search result could give you over 1,000,000 sites or pages.

Who need so many results? I guess maybe only 1% of persons need over 100 items. But almost all search engines make their largest efforts to collet more and more....Are they crazy?

kch333

[Macguru]

I don't know if they are going crazy, but that is how a database works. Plus, I really like to know how many competitors I have for any given query.

[Lisa]

I would hate to use a search engine that says, "Don't worry, we ignore half the web because our database only supports 1,000,000,000 pages."

[dcheney]

hmm, a slogan comes to mind, "tastes great, less web" ;)

[altyfc]

Large databases are handy for more specific searches.

Paul

[Beachboy]

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Great slogan for Teoma, DCheney. LOL

[victor]

At best, Google will return only 1000 results for a query.

I guess they reckon that's enough for anybody -- though some SEO specialists may disagree.

Why do search engines want to record more pages? Presumably the same reason people compiling phone books want every phone number....I don't need a database with a billion phone numbers in it; but that's probably the only way to create a database that does have all the ones I'll need.

[RBuzz]

There are still plenty of Web searches that bring no results at all or only one result (I mean, that's what the game of Googlewhacking is all about! :->) What is the search engine supposed to do, say "Oh, I've indexed this string on enough pages, I'm not going to index it anymore"?