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Yet another google search question

by SakeSushi
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Hi

i have yet another google related search question which need some clarifications from the experts here.

Its hard for me to explain as its tedious to do

input this phrase into the search bar intitle:"fast fat loss diet"

and probably you should have 40 searches, which is the same as me.

now scroll to the last page and click "repeat with omitted results" and suddenly the figure jump to 1070

and again, go to the last page of the search result. and suddenly the results become 63 :confused::confused:


Hence, the real intitle for "fast fat loss diet" is 40? 1070? or 63?

Pls advise

note: its not my keyword, just something to illustrate the example.
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  • Profile picture of the author TristanPerry
    I get:

    813 on the first page
    42 on last page
    813 with "repeat with omitted results" on the first page
    65 with "repeat with omitted results" on the last page

    Which completely goes against what you've posted, too.

    Now that is odd.

    It's just the way Google works, but it's pretty annoying and I'd love to know the answer too
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      Here's a short answer:

      Because google finds, sees, discovers, whatever you want to call it, a million pages
      with said terms, it's a search engine that is not just a search engine. It's
      a search engine to show you the most, best, relevant, again whatever you call
      it, webpages that actually matter! So, it may say it found a gazillion pages with
      your words on it, google is smart enough to know only a few thousand are
      worth looking at. And of those few thousand, maybe only a couple of hundred
      are actually worth viewing.

      How about this. Think of a bookstore or library. There are many books with
      the word animals in it. And in truth, the bookstore would have a whole lot of books with animals in
      it. But how many books are actually relevant to animals? How about the section in nature,
      animals. So, 10,000 books in the store with animals, 500 books in nature with animals, but
      of those with animals only 40 are worth looking at. The bookstore clerk would say we have
      10,000 books with animals, but sent you to look at the 500 in nature, and then pointed
      out that these 40 are the ones we are going to steer you to. That in a nutshell, is
      what google prides itself on doing.

      I think google uses the large numbers to show how they narrow things down for
      you. Nobody is ever going to want to look at the 10,000th page on whatever
      you search for.

      Paul
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      • Profile picture of the author SakeSushi
        Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

        Here's a short answer:

        Because google finds, sees, discovers, whatever you want to call it, a million pages
        with said terms, it's a search engine that is not just a search engine. It's
        a search engine to show you the most, best, relevant, again whatever you call
        it, webpages that actually matter! So, it may say it found a gazillion pages with
        your words on it, google is smart enough to know only a few thousand are
        worth looking at. And of those few thousand, maybe only a couple of hundred
        are actually worth viewing.

        How about this. Think of a bookstore or library. There are many books with
        the word animals in it. And in truth, the bookstore would have a whole lot of books with animals in
        it. But how many books are actually relevant to animals? How about the section in nature,
        animals. So, 10,000 books in the store with animals, 500 books in nature with animals, but
        of those with animals only 40 are worth looking at. The bookstore clerk would say we have
        10,000 books with animals, but sent you to look at the 500 in nature, and then pointed
        out that these 40 are the ones we are going to steer you to. That in a nutshell, is
        what google prides itself on doing.

        I think google uses the large numbers to show how they narrow things down for
        you. Nobody is ever going to want to look at the 10,000th page on whatever
        you search for.

        Paul
        so can we safely say that the "useful"pages in gogole eyes are only 63, pls refer to top post?

        the results with omitted results at the last page?
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  • Profile picture of the author ezminisites
    I know what you mean. I buddy of mine had 2,700 searches around his first and last name in quotes on Google a month and then in ONLY a few days it went to over 17,000. That was odd too.
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  • Profile picture of the author waihon
    On Sep 17, I get:

    1080 on the first page
    42 on last page (page 6)
    1080 with "repeat the search with the omitted results included" on the first page
    63 on the last page (page 7)

    Quite confusing for me as well. I interpreted the results as:

    * 42 web pages with "fast fat loss diet" in title with omitted results
    * 63 web pages with "fast fat loss diet" in title without omitted results
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