Tldr of video: Google truncates 6.5b results for "climate change" to just a few hundred. Same thing occurs on other search terms and other search engines.
You don't know they limit your results until you reach the last page. To try, keep going towards the end of the results, keep going to the farthest page possible and it will end shockingly soon. Only then does the results number change. (I've only tested on desktop)
Once you get to their last page, It will tell you it omitted results and you can click a button to show all, but it only adds about double, so instead of 20 pages, you get 40 pages. Out of billions of pages, you get less than 1000.
I've always known there's perception management involved, because they just drop inconvenient things out of the search index altogether. Sorry, can't show you that Dave.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 22.7 ms ] threadYou don't know they limit your results until you reach the last page. To try, keep going towards the end of the results, keep going to the farthest page possible and it will end shockingly soon. Only then does the results number change. (I've only tested on desktop)
Once you get to their last page, It will tell you it omitted results and you can click a button to show all, but it only adds about double, so instead of 20 pages, you get 40 pages. Out of billions of pages, you get less than 1000.
I've always known there's perception management involved, because they just drop inconvenient things out of the search index altogether. Sorry, can't show you that Dave.
"Sorry, Google does not serve more than 1000 results for any query."