You often see claims that terms or proper names get xzillion web page hits when 'googled'.
It's an interesting exercise, actually tracking down some of these 'hits'. If you do, you will see the numbers begin to shrink, the farther into the search you get.
RL
"_Approximately_ 1,000,000 hits".
It's rounded, and when you reach the end of the list, they cut off the "omitted search results" (which are usually duplicate pages).
Tim
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If you want to see the whole shooting match, add &filter=0 to your URL. Without that, as Tim said, they weed out the duplicates.
I'm increasingly suspicious of contextual searches that are fast, but depend on a 'pre-stored' database.
Are there web search methods/tools available that are slow, but keep on looking, as long as they are invoked?
RL
There's nothing that says you can't deploy your own spider/bot the same way the established search engines have. The spammers do it all the time.
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