[Web4lib] Google search results question

[Jeremy Dunck]

On 7/6/05, Hester, Mary <HesterM at bartonccc.edu> wrote:
>  I became intrigued by this and did a quick "ask a librarian" in several
> search engines.
> 
> Google: 5,970,000 but... 1000 before ending.
> Vivisimo: only went to 214 results of "at least 855,953"  
...
> Yahoo: ...5,880,000 but again only ... 1000

...

These results suggest that there really might be as many as suggested,
but that they are imprecisely capping the result around 1000.   (And
Visimo has a different cap).