Why Do Google Hit Numbers Vary?

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[deft_spyder]

Google related topic on slashdot, though you might find this interesting, although i think it may be pretty obvious to most here.

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Why Do Google Hit Numbers Vary?

[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 3:14 am (utc) on Feb. 11, 2003]
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[Brett_Tabke]

ya - asked and answered here about 2 years ago...

[eaden]

I was just reading that thread.. Seing as that question was answered here 2 years ago, I wonder if this one was as well?

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Funny thing here in Germany is: The (safe search) filter is ALWAYS ON, and in the German preferences, there's no option to turn it off. After you change your language to English (URL), though, there suddenly appears an option for disabling the filter... Try talking about censorship (there are not even clear rules about what exactly they are filtering, and there's no explanation why you can't turn it off over here; even worse: They don't even tell you that there IS a filter and that it's always active).

I asked Google about this, but never got a response.

I find this interesting... I wonder why this is, if it's some sort of censorship. I changed my language to German, and low and belold the safe image search option dissapears. I also tried it out in H4X0r language, and it's not there either...