[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Google and aboutness

[Aaron Joyner]

Yeah, the results page (usually) says "about" for a reason.  :)  It's
publicly known to be close but rarely exact.  A quick Google search
for 'google results "of about"' will turn up a lot of discussion on
the topic.  For my own curiosity, what are you intending to do w/ the
data?

Aaron S. Joyner


On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Edward M. Corrado <ecorrado at ecorrado.us> wrote:
> I received 38 hits after I asked Google to show all results. I'm not sure
> how Google figures out its about, but I often fiind it off by a little
> bit.... For example, I just did a search for
>
>   "northville-lake placid trail" site:gov
>
> and am looking at records 21-28 of about 27.
>
> Edward
>
>
> Karen Schneider 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)...
>>
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