"Repeat Search" results oddity

[glengara]

Stuck a quote into G and got "Results 1 - 7 of 7" and though apparently being the full results "repeat search" got me "Results 1 - 10 of about 11".

Now numbers invariably change on a "repeat search" but I've never seen them go up before, and interestingly all those "extras" were supplemental pages.

[tedster]

That's the behavior I see most of the time with a regular search that returns very few results. The Repeat Search link does say "repeat the search with the omitted results included" and it then does go up.

I do see the number go down from the initial reported number when the results start at "1-10 of 926" for example, but you can only get to page 12 or so. But then, the actual number of results at the top also goes down to the precise number and it no longer says "about", even if you don't repeat the search.

[g1smd]

This has been going on for several months, but the actual detail has changed very slightly several times during that time.