Google’s “million’s of search results” are not being served

Re:Google’s “million’s of search results” are not being served by crazygringo on Monday October 03, 2022 @03:32PM (#33072488)

If you can't find it after 10 pages (100 items) you likely couldn't find it even after 100 (1,000 items). It's diminishing returns, so more pages isn't the solution.

The solution to avoid the more popular version as much as possible is to exclude keywords associated with it, and/or to add required keywords associated only with the thing you're looking for. Exact string matches ("go programming language" rather than "go") help too.

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Re:Google’s “million’s of search results” are not being served by mathaway on Monday October 03, 2022 @03:43PM (#33072649)

Any kind of news event can be repeated by dozens of articles. It’s a really absurd system and it also means you can’t easily find alternative perspectives on events.

Searching by date range doesn’t work either since it brings up current articles as well.

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Re:Google’s “million’s of search results” are not being served by dmitriid on Monday October 03, 2022 @04:30PM (#33073258)

For many search terms the first few pages are nothing but advertisement and sites gaming Google search. I'd love to go beyond page 10. Not with Google, even if says "100k results found". It just doesn't bring them money to link to those pages

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