Here's how to find all pages in the Google index

[dilipsam]

just query for **

According to my theory, this shows the total number of pages in Google index.

More info at http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/...0039#post70039

[kgun]

Questions:

1. What is the maximum available number of pages with todays technology?

2. Is your result independent of location?

[Tim]

But I get 2 billion more with **** !

[kgun]

** = **** in Norway.

My results:
** 18,150,000,000
**** 18,150,000,000

Q.E.D.

Then how are the UNION (intersection counted once) of all results summed over all datacenters?

Ask Google.

[Tim]

I get
18,150,000,000 for **
18,210,000,000 for ************** (14)
20,100,000,000 for ****

[kgun]

The above result were from my Google Search for AdSense that I cannot use again.

The results are not stable. I think I have read about it, but do not remember the reason.

Now I get.

Google.no (hit return more than once til it stabilizes)

** 18 150 000 000
**** 19 160 000 000

Google.com
** 18 150 000 000
**** 18,140,000,000

In the usual meaning of the * wildcard
** = ****

Some seconds later I get
on Google.no

** 18 150 000 000
**** 18 150 000 000

And the same as above for Google.com

[williamc]

Originally Posted by Bootboy

I get
18,150,000,000 for **
18,210,000,000 for ************** (14)
20,100,000,000 for ****

You have to remember that each call to google may return a different datacenters results. As the datacenters are always in flux, you very likely will get differing numbers on a regular basis.

[williamc]

Originally Posted by kgun

Questions:

1. What is the maximum available number of pages with todays technology?

2. Is your result independent of location?

Question:

Can you ever answer a posters question with anything but more questions?

If you do not know the answer or have a formed opinion, please dont post, you are just wasting space and cluttering the forum up.


----------- Todays Truism -----------------
Book learning is great, but it will never replace common sense or the ability to understand what you read.

[google junky]

I don't have an answer. I only know how I have used the asterisk in application. Hopefully I'm not getting off topic here.

I have tried playing around with it to find a use for the asterisk. I have done so many tests on this little character in different ways. I never came close to how results are formulated when using it. The results order changes in odd ways when adding or subtracting extra asterisk's.

I only have one use for it so far.
I applied it to insert wildcard words.
It only allows a short amount of words in the space it takes up. If I remember correctly it was 1 to 4 words in place of the asterisk.

I've used it this way
A google search like intitle:"submit*link" KeywordHere

That all I really have to offer.
It is still a mystery to me used any other way.

[williamc]

Originally Posted by google junky

I don't have an answer. I only know how I have used the asterisk in application. Hopefully I'm not getting off topic here.

No, but you are showing actual test results and thus making formed opinions. That contributes to the thread.

[kgun]

This is getting rediculous:

Question:

Can you ever answer a posters question with anything but more questions?

If you do not know the answer or have a formed opinion, please dont post, you are just wasting space and cluttering the forum up.

1. Of course you can.
2. It can also be used as a method to bring a post bak to top in a hurry. A post you mean deserves an answer. A method even proposed at some forums.
3. If you do not know the answer or have a formed opinion, please dont post. Again, I was in a hurry, and ment I had the answer. Read about it when I was a member at WMW. I could not use more time on that post and hoped that other could contribute better. You should not be a WMW member?
4. If you have seen it as your mission to footfollow me and comment on everything I write, please stop. You are filling the servers at WPW with nonsense.

<quote>
You see, that is the diffeence between you and I mate.

Everything I say I can back up with facts and examples.
</quote>


I do not believe in your facts.

[williamc]

Originally Posted by kgun

I do not believe in your facts.

Of course you don't. That would require being able to read and comprehend topics.

[kgun]

Quote of the day.

“When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.”

- Mark Twain

1 + 1 = 3!

1 + 1 + 1 = 5.

Problem: Count four.

Answer if you have probelm:

1 + 1 + 0

[Tim]

Anyway, back to the daft asterisk game.

williamc, point taken...today I get;

11,050,000,000 for **
9,660,000,000 for ************** (14)
11,530,000,000 for ****

Frankly, I don't care much but it's more interesting than watching everyone having a go at kgun, whos' contributions both confuse and fascinate me.

Live and let live.

[kgun]

Nobody has proved the approximate size of the global index.

Example 1:

A={b,d,f,k,l,m}

B={f,r,y}

C={f,y,b,x,z}

The number of unique elements are?

Example 2:

Max size (of not necessarily unique elements) are 9.

The number of unique elements are?

The max number of unique elements are?

[kgun]

Make the following searches:

** site:cnn.com

** site:microsoft.com

** site:ibm.com

And so on.

If you start summing, I think the Google "local" index is much larger than indicated above.

What about the "global" index, summing (taking the union) over all local results and eliminating intersection?

[incrediblehelp]

http://www.google.com/support/bin/an...3178&topic=352

A wildcard in a Google search query can be indicated by an asterisk and will match one or more entire words of text so that the query matches a contiguous sequence of words. For example, a search for [ cooking * classes ] will match the phrases "cooking school classes" and "cooking and wine tasting classes.