[extropy-chat] how does google find out everything?

[Russell Wallace]

On 8/19/06, Robert Bradbury <robert.bradbury at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Also, has anyone ever run into the problem that you can't get to *all* of
> the pages the search engines claim are relevant?  I think at one point I
> tried to get  the page that included results 9,090 to 9,099 of some million
> result search (this is an example) and the search engine wouldn't cough it
> up.  (Or is it something weird like you have to go through the preceding 900
> pages of results in order for it to cough of the 901st page?)
>

I don't know what algorithm they use for that, but notice that it says
_about_ (some large number of results); that might indicate that it doesn't
calculate the details of the later pages unless you go through the earlier
ones.
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