how come when I type in some words the results are so small in Google

But so huge in other search engines like yahoo and msn?

 

Feel free to explain, or show us a PS.

 

I think it may be because Google shows more relevant results whereas Yahoo and MSN just show anything to do with any of the keywords in it. I think thats it anyway.

 

I think what "hosty-crocodile" said is right. Google only show refined results. Storing lot of irrelevant information is will eat google's resources so I think they only store the most relevant results.

 

I would like to see an example of what you are talking about.

Never done a search with few results unless I did for a rare name in quotes.

 

sorry, I should have explained better. I consider "few results" anything under 5 million, so basically what I meant was no matter what I search in google, the results are always a lot less than the msn search. I think hosty-crocodile answered my question though. thanks

 

He's talking about something like the example here, I think:

1 - 10 of 583,000,000 for virus - Yahoo
1-10 de 451.000.000 resultados - MSN
1 - 10 of about 212,000,000 for virus - Google

or, more evident

1 - 10 of 135,000,000 for owners direct - Yahoo
1-10 de 35.200.000 resultados - MSN
1 - 10 of about 1,500,000 for owners direct - Google

 

I guess I hadn't been paying attention to the number, I thought he meant like 10 results or something.

I get it now though and like backlinks, Google will only give you a certain number of results (maybe a percentage??)

 

I think google doesnot display some urls that have the same contents...

 

Perhaps Google has already sent many of these pages to the supplemental results.

 

yes sometimes It happens
probably when Google bans or panalise a site having same content with any other site.