I'v just noticed this. Google does not serve more than 1000 results for any query! For example, buy generates 1,040,000,000 results in Google but you cannot see more than 1000! Try visiting results page #101 for buy and you'll get this message: Sorry, Google does not serve more than 1000 results for any query. (You asked for results starting from 1000.) Is it just me or what's going on?
Also, Yahoo! only shows 1000 results out of 1,280,000,000 for buy (you cannot go beyond results page #100) MSN is no different, just try to go beyond results page #100 for buy. This applies for any query, "buy" is just an example. Is this a new standard or what?! Strange!
that's strange, seems like there should be an advance search option of some kind to display more results.
uhm who goes past page 5 anyway ... but yeah, that's strange. I guess its to prevent worthless sites from spamming.
I've known about this for ages too. Prolly a year or two. I was searching for proxies that worked on websense through google and got to page 100 and then it left me stranded.
It's been like that for about 8 years now. Until recently MSN only went to 500 results. You new to the whole search engine thing? -Michael
I didn't know about this...and will probably never have an issue with it...I don't think I ever go past page 10 (usually not even page 4...)
I can understand ho regular searchers might never encounter this, but I am kind of stumped how people who claim to be knowledgeable about search engines from a web business POV are clueless about it, honestly. I'm really curious how many of the self proclaimed seo's and web marketers here had no clue how deep the serps went. -Michael
Think of the resources required to return 1 billion results compared to 1,000 Besides, if you can't find anything relevant out of 1,000 results you have no business searching for what you were searching for.
At FirstStop WebSearch, we are regularly contacted by people who face this limitation on various search engines. When people conduct some thourough research or investigation they are interested in as many results as possible. And they are not happy when instead of promised thousands of search results they can only get 1,000. We have an article explaining this problem: http://www.firststopwebsearch.com/1000results.html Our usual recommendations are: 1. Use more that one search engine and then merge search results (not all search results from different engines overlap). 2. Conduct several searches with slightly different search words (i.e. use synonyms, or rephrase the query somehow). The chances are not all search results will be the same.
you couldn't find what your looking for on the first 1000 results and you still want to keep looking?
why do you need over the 1000 results? i'm not looking after 4th or 5th pages. most of results after these pages are related to your keyword that you are searching
i can't believe this is news! i can't remember seeing more than 1000 results in the history of google or maybe any other search engine for that matter.