Re: today's how-best-to question... -- RPG400-L

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Interestingly, if you use

http://www.google.com/search?q=computer&start=990

you get a page of results with the following message at the bottom:

"*In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some
entries very similar to the 929 already displayed.*"

Now if you use

http://www.google.com/search?q=computer&start=991

you get the same messag as you get if you specify ..."&start=1000". Although
there are only 9 results on the page. I'd expect that if you specify
"...&start= 995", it would show only 5 results - 995 - 999.

Rory

On 5/15/07, Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yep. You can tell Google where to start the list by sticking a "start"
number in the URL. For example:
http://www.google.com/search?q=computer&start=1000

Note that if you try browsing to that URL, it'll tell you about the 1000
record limit.

I think that's very telling! Most people don't even know about the 1000
record limit in Google because they never page down that far. If that's
the case, what are the odds that they'll page down to the bottom of a
9999 record subfile?

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