[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Google and aboutness

[Dan Wells]

Well, it says "about 38," and when it is all said and done I only get 36.  As far as I know, Google's always been like that.

DW

>>> "Grant Johnson" <FGJohnson at upei.ca> 10/14/2008 9:48 AM >>>
If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included.

And if you follow the link at the bottom of the 3rd page :

"In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 25 already displayed." 

...you end up with 38!   :-)


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F. Grant Johnson
  Systems Coordinator
  Robertson Library
  University of Prince Edward Island 

>>> On 10/14/2008 at 7:50 AM, in message
<e28b6dac0810140350w132c2c93t3d9f35c1473d1652 at mail.gmail.com>, "Karen
Schneider" <kgs at esilibrary.com> wrote:
> I got curious, so I forced a small results set in Google with this search:
> 
> sedaris corduroy site:gov
> 
> Your results may vary, but I had 40 results until I got to the third page,
> in which case I suddenly had 25. ;-)
> 
> Again, not saying this isn't something to look into, but at least for some
> search engines, the days when good old 40 was 40, and not 25, appear to be
> behind us (these are recessionary times, after all)...