Google pagination rounding
Hmm, I just found out something strange.
- Click this link: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=%22mieke+van+loon%22&start=20&sa=N
- How many pages with search results does Google return? (6)
- How many search results? (1,330)
- Now click on Next at the bottom
- How many pages with search results does Google return? (5)
- How many search results? (1,330)
- Now click on Next at the bottom again
- How many pages with search results does Google return? (5)
- How many search results? (46)
Can somebody explain?
Doesn’t this make all those “proofs” based on Google fights moot? I can understand
Google is not counting exactly how many results a search query
resulted in for optimisations sake, but going from 1,330 to 46… that’s a but
far off, isn’t it?
(For the record, Mieke Van Loon is a member of my family and I was
looking up her personal web page.)