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Offline Matthew

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Google BILLION search results really just 400! Try it!
« on: April 11, 2022, 03:49:56 PM »
Try it for any search term -- it's not just controversial topics that are "curated" to a small number of approved websites.

1. Type in a search term, note the total number of supposed search results (usually 10s or 100s of millions, or even over a billion!)
2. Try to navigate through them, keep clicking the last page. Somewhere around page 420, it will COMPLETELY GIVE OUT and say "Total results 422" or something. Even if you click "don't hide similar results; I want to see ALL results" you get the SAME result.

Conclusion: at some point, Google has fundamentally changed. You can no longer find "Joe's blog" on organic search. Do you know what a Potempkin village is? It's a fake village created for propaganda purposes. Or the fake wall around Truman's world in The Truman Show -- it LOOKS like a horizon stretching on for many miles, but in fact Truman is limited to X miles of water around his little fake town.

Google PRETENDS there are millions of pages indexed, but you won't get to 99.999% of them via Google! It's literally impossible. Not just difficult, they DON'T EXIST IN THEIR DATABASE ANYMORE. *maybe* they are there in some way, so you can type in site:cathinfo.com and get results. But it is literally impossible to get these results served up in normal Google search results, and that is BIG. 

At some point, the old Internet died. Essentially, Google is curating content for every topic, like the old Yahoo search engine topics pages. Remember that? They had human moderators for every topic, and you had to apply to get your site on that page. It was a human-based directory of websites. That's what Google is now, only they PRETEND it's still this index of the whole Internet, a way to find things on ANY website, with near-infinite possibilities. NOT TRUE.




Re: Google BILLION search results really just 400! Try it!
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2022, 04:00:52 PM »
That... makes a lot of sense. Really. That at some point, the "old internet" died. The amount of stuff one can no longer find because of expired/dead domain names is astounding.


Offline Yeti

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Re: Google BILLION search results really just 400! Try it!
« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2022, 05:19:41 PM »
Gee, that's pretty weird. I just googled "chocolate chip cookies" and the first time it said there were around 355,000,000 results. So I keep clicking next, and when I get to page 21 of the search results, it didn't give me any more pages after that. It was like that was the last page. With about 10 results on each page, that means I got 210 of the hits.

I'm trying to remember when this changed, since usually there is little reason to scroll through dozens of pages of search engine hits. But yeah, I do remember years ago it used to go on indefinitely when you would scroll through search results in a search engine. At the very least, whatever limit was there was far more than 21 pages. That's definitely a strangely low limit.

I didn't watch the video. How do they explain this? What is the reason behind it?

Offline Yeti

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Re: Google BILLION search results really just 400! Try it!
« Reply #3 on: April 11, 2022, 05:28:08 PM »
Conclusion: at some point, Google has fundamentally changed. You can no longer find "Joe's blog" on organic search.

This is a shame. One of the most interesting features of the internet was finding websites by random people and seeing what they thought about something. It seems like now all you get to see is websites by big left-wing media outlets.

Offline Matthew

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Re: Google BILLION search results really just 400! Try it!
« Reply #4 on: April 11, 2022, 06:12:09 PM »
This is a shame. One of the most interesting features of the internet was finding websites by random people and seeing what they thought about something. It seems like now all you get to see is websites by big left-wing media outlets.

Exactly!

It's all the handful of Media companies, all on the same side, or should I say (((the same side))) -- absolutely NO variety, independent thought, or dissenting opinions whatsoever.

Especially when you search for a controversial topic like "Climate change" -- everything is by .GOV, the UN, .EDU domains, etc. Absolutely NOTHING by the common man. Everything is 100% "mainstream approved consensus opinion".