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

["Rory Hewitt" <roryhewitt@xxxxxxxxx>]

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?