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posted by Eduardo Favaretto on December 7, 2007 at 03:29 PM

Why does Google (and others...) show only 1000 results?

Anyone can answer this question to me? Technically, I have noticed in a practical experiment at ::buscas.com there is a "deep process" to seek a keyword an entire text field in complex databases structures (over 5 million records, for example).

I Why does Google (and others...) show only 1000 results?

t means, when the keyword is in the begging of the indexed field (i.e. LINK at LINKING), it is easy and quick to find it, but when this same keyword is a partial string in a big word (i.e. LINK at FIRSTLINKMEDIA), as a combined one (or mixed string), it takes time to be found.

Because of that [and other "unknown" purposes], the majority of very popular search engine systems [Live Search, Yahoo, Dogpile besides Google], limit the user searches to some thousand results, even if you check a database that brings some million valid records. Maybe the users don´t want to wait more than some milliseconds... too much time (???).

By the way, if I receive 52,700,000 results to the keyword "Brazil" (my country name in English), but I "only" can see the resume of "first" 1000 links (99 pages), why the other 52,699,000 need to exist? Sorry, Google does not serve more than 1000 results for any query. (You asked for results starting from 1000.)

Sorry, Google does not serve more than 1000 results for any query. (You asked for results starting from 1000.)

It is really true to say: there is a lot of information stored at databases [i.e. machine side], but humans are responsible to create "filters" or "indexes" to decide which records will be "visible".

Would it be Page Rank side?

Thanks Larry and Sergey.

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