68.700.000 equals 71.000.000 … according to Google

by Gert Mellak on August 26, 2008

Nice to see that Google finally released its Google Suggest Tool, at least for google.com. What’s interesting, though, is that the result count in Google Suggest’s search proposals and the result count later differ greatly.

Of course I can understand that Google publishes aproximate numbers, but why do they differ? What’s the reasen that for “web analytics” Google Suggest says 71.000.000, the results later say 68.700.000 results.

Any ideas?

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David 08.26.08 at 9:24 pm

Don’t know where this difference comes from, I had expected the figures to be equal as well, maybe there was some filter applied on the results page while next to the proposals Google counts all results (?)

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