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September 5th, 2007, 10:07 GMT · By Bogdan Popa

Google: 'Only 1000 Results From Now On!'

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Google is the best search engine on the Internet and this is only a good thing when we think that it can find any information you require. Obviously, the search technology has a huge database with websites so searching for common words such as 'car' or 'software' should return you millions of webpages. Well,
not exactly because the Mountain View company implemented a very efficient system (sometimes) that will limit the number of the results at 1000. Why, you'll ask. Because Google considers that the best results that match your query should be published on the first page of the SERP, meaning in the first ten weblinks.

"Google provides only the 1000 most relevant search results for a query, even when there are more than 1000 matches. (Due to variations in our estimates, we may, on occasion, display slightly less than 1000.) We try to make your search experience so efficient that it's not necessary to scroll past the first ten listings," Google mentioned about this restriction.

"We understand that some users would like to see more than 1000 results, but this is fairly rare, and it would heavily tax our system to provide these results for everyone," it added.

As you can see, there's not much to do to remove this limitation because Google activates this function by default and it doesn't allow you to change it. However, I don't find this restriction as something very annoying because it is supposed that Google is able to find whatever you're searching for and include it in the first results. And 1000 results are more than enough, seriously.

However, Google might provide less than 1000 results if the company is required to remove some results but we can't talk about a huge removal of results that may affect the users of the search technology.
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