Re: Limit to googles search?

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

In article <b66becf.0302251239.4f45d3cc@posting.google.com>, grent@comcast.net
(Geo3) writes:

> Well it has nothing to do with a time limit or how long you do a
>search. But there is a limit. Something like a freeway to divided
>highway, dirt road then a path that stops.
> I went on I.E. and the same thing happened. It now showed a few more
>entrys, up about a hundered from 210500 to 210600 or was it 21500 from
>21600. I tried going back from the beginning to were I was stopped
>with Netscape. Well around when I started to hit 500 it was slower,
>and would start to come up with the no results page coming up. But a
>quick go back and then on to the next results would move me forward. 
>After 700 this was happening a lot more. After 730-740 it took about
>25 -30 times before I could move forward on to the next 740-750. But I
>could not get beyond 750. I must have have went back and and forth
>between clicking on the Back arrow and the next results a 100 times.
>It kept coming up NO RESULTS FOUND, check spelling ect.

May I suggest that anytime you see more than 150 or so hits, it means
that you should NOT start looking through all of them, but instead you
should add additional search qualifiers to refine your search to a more
reasonable number of better matches.

Tens of thousands of hits is an invitation to be more specific.

-michael

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