Why does Google say X million results and only gives up to Y?
dalke: I just did a search for "football checkers acequia moon" (without the quotes). It says there are about 11,400 pages, but when I go through them it ends up with 221 pages. I assume the estimation is based on some statistical predictions using the individual search words. Here they are relatively common terms (well, except 'acequia') which rarely go together.I found http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/008851.html say "I work for google these days, though not on search. The number of hits for phrases are estimates, based on overall word frequencies". The invalidity of the estimated results has been haphazard for a long time. See http://danfingerman.com/dtm/archives/000004.html from 2003.