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359000 Results? Google Is Faking Search Numbers to Appear Big

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Re: 359000 Results? Google Is Faking Search Numbers to Appear Big

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So the author

1. does not understand basic Google search strategies (for instance: Using apostrophes to search for exact Matches 2. then deduces that any "result" must be an exact result and not just a subset of any n-gram of the words entered in the search query 3. after which he tries to load a lot of results, only to get pinched out by Google's "likeliness filter" - which also protects Google from too costly deep-text searches (which in the vast majority of use cases are not beneficial to the user anyway) and then 4. finally accuses Google of fraud and "growth hacking" - thus starting to play bullshit bingo.