Google’s “million’s of search results” are not being served
I was curious, so I tried to do this with GitHub search.The search “Golang” returns 225k+ repositories. Each page of results has 10 repositories. I queried page 1000 to see the 10001st-10010th results and got a 404.I searched Wikipedia (using its own search page) for “America” and was told there were 1.9M results. I requested the 10001st result and it failed with this message:“An error has occurred while searching: Could not retrieve results. Up to 10000 search results are supported, but results starting at 10000 were requested.”There was an HN thread along these lines about web search somewhat recently, with people making confident accusations about false advertising etc.But it really seems that everyone does this. I don’t know, maybe it’s still wrong or misleading.But personally I’m ok knowing “there are X hits and we will serve you some of them”.EDIT: I just searched the Library of Congress for “god” and was told I was viewing results 1-25 of 324,782. Sure enough when I asked for page 10,000 I was rebuffed. I really don’t think this is a Google thing