>480,000 results for me

I see 4,540,000 results.

Many old links on Hacker News are also broken:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

I see a somewhat ironic message from that google search

https://i.imgur.com/dxnJi28.png

I get 388 results: https://i.imgur.com/rPWUUUW.png

I see 4’720’000 results, even more WOW ;)

I now have "About 5,080,000 results (0.15 seconds)" (so more _and faster_ than previous results, lol); clearly our interest in this search term has attracted the attention of SEO bots ;P.

It's increasing?! I got the following:

> About 6,080,000 results (0.21 seconds)

> About 5,000,000 results (0.16 seconds)

"About 4,910,000 results (0.26 seconds)"

About 53,80,000 results (0.22 seconds)

What region are you in that this is how the number is formatted?

India, likely. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system

This is formatted as “lacs” or “lakhs”.

A “lac” is equivalent to 100 thousand.

So it would be colloquially said as 53 lacs 80 thousand.

I would guess Japan. Looks like the "man" concept they have to group numbers by 10k.

Edit: it seems to be also the case in other east asia countries, see this link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myriad#East_Asia

Japan and China use regular Western comma grouping for Latin numerals. The myriads are used only when using Japanese/Chinese numerals: １万円 for 10,000 yen, ２億円 for 200,000,000.

Thanks, I didn't know the formatting was following rules of Latin/Roman numerals. I remember having difficulties when learning to group numbers by 10k (with the -man suffix) during japanese courses more than a decade ago, I always assumed that was used everywhere.

Downvoted for a wrong guess? That's a bit harsh...

Yeah India