Sourcing on Stack

[Dawn Barry]

Happy Monday ! : )...

I'm doing a Google search on the site: stackoverflow.com. I'm getting thousands of search results but the ones I can see are only limited to about 10 pages and on another search I was given a very high # of search results also and can only see 2 pages of results.. Any way for me to be able to be able to see more of these results??

thanks! 

Dawn 

[gary cozin]

Dawn,

Google only allows you to see the 1st 1,000 results regardless of how many pages it gives you. 

[Dawn Barry]

thanks for your reply... 

the 1st thousand? It's only showing me 100? 

[Dave Galley]

Dawn,

When it comes to Google, WYSIWYG - the SERPs it shows are all there is, for that query.

If you do a search, and you see "About 2,437 results" or something like this, then go to page 2 and see "showing 101-147 of 300 results" at the top?

There are really only 147 results (unless you have forgotten to look for, and click if it is there, the link "repeat the search with the omitted results included", in which case there might be a few more).

Google's estimated results are terrible on the first page, and not 100% reliable ever.

If you want to know how many results there really are, you are basically reduced to counting them.

-Dave

[Dawn Barry]

thanks!!!! really appreciate the clarification 

Dave Galley said:

Dawn,

When it comes to Google, WYSIWYG - the SERPs it shows are all there is, for that query.

If you do a search, and you see "About 2,437 results" or something like this, then go to page 2 and see "showing 101-147 of 300 results" at the top?

There are really only 147 results (unless you have forgotten to look for, and click if it is there, the link "repeat the search with the omitted results included", in which case there might be a few more).

Google's estimated results are terrible on the first page, and not 100% reliable ever.

If you want to know how many results there really are, you are basically reduced to counting them.

-Dave