Why loves Google "a"?

[Hanns]

If you search for the letter "a" Google shows 8.000.000.000 results.

[google.com...]

That`s much more than "www", "e" or other letters. Why?

[Solutions]

Because the letter "a" is used more often that the letter "e" alone in setences.

eg. "a man", "a car", "a cat" and so on..

[Hanns]

If you search on Google Germany there is the "Fraunhofer IIS - Homepage" in the Top 10 without the single letter "a" on this site.

Because of the <a> in the HTML-Code?

[claus]

It's the same case with "the".

See this related thread: google word count stats [webmasterworld.com]

[arras]

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[Nikke]

8.000.000.000

Hmmm.

I only get 2,890,000,000 results on Google.com
3,300,000,000 pages on Google.se
3,450,000,000 pages on Google.de
3,280,000,000 pages on .ru

(Still round, even numbers though!)

I kind of wonder... If we track these numbers to DCs, we could find out which sites use which DC...