Giant queries?

Discussion in 'Google' started by clades, Mar 24, 2009.

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    This is a question i have about large search engines like google.

    If you look on google for "a" it supposedly returns 16,340,000,000 results (actually you wont be able to go through all the result pages will end on 90 or so).
    Where they go fetch the number 16,340,000,000? Is it a database query or stored number? If so it means they have stored counters for all large queries?
     
    clades, Mar 24, 2009 IP
  2. Bill_Stanbrook

    Bill_Stanbrook Well-Known Member

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    I would imagine they cache the results data as much as possible.
     
    Bill_Stanbrook, Apr 1, 2009 IP
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    lindamood1 Active Member

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    yes it shows all possible result with a
     
    lindamood1, Apr 1, 2009 IP