Really easy to get clicks (and upvotes on HN apparently) by complaining about literally anything Google related.
Personally I'd prefer something like "Returned top N of 166,000 results" and easy access to those N results (first/best match, last/worst match, paginate left/right)
This is exactly my point. This article spends a thousand words to say "google doesn't actually let you see every result from the billions it claims to have."
Okay cool, I'm not gonna read a billion search results anyways, that's why I ask google about a topic.
The writing is poor, the "findings" mundane, it's a marketing fluff piece that tries to convince you there's a problem and then plug their service as a means to solve it.