Maybe but it's from 2021.

Personally I'd prefer something like "Returned top N of 166,000 results" and easy access to those N results (first/best match, last/worst match, paginate left/right)

why do you think this? nothing in the article indicates this, and Google's questionable search results (compared to what they once were) has been a nearly constant topic of discussion for years now

> Google's questionable search results

This is exactly my point. This article spends a thousand words to say "google doesn't actually let you see every result from the billions it claims to have."

Okay cool, I'm not gonna read a billion search results anyways, that's why I ask google about a topic.

The writing is poor, the "findings" mundane, it's a marketing fluff piece that tries to convince you there's a problem and then plug their service as a means to solve it.

I’m not conspiratorial about this, but I’m confident that an article like “Google doesn’t actually serve you all the results” drives more clicks, engagement, and outrage than “literally no sufficiently large search tool gives you all the results, including Bing, DuckDuckGo, Wikipedia, GitHub, the Library of Congress, etc.”