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> Sure, it says "X million results"

Google also removed that few months ago.

It's still available, just hidden in the search tools.

Yea, you have to click "Tools" to see the number of search results and the time it took for Google to retrieve information. Again, idk why they hid that.

Those counts have always been wildly inaccurate, to the point that engineers on the team were embarrassed to be displaying them, but product people felt it was important to the user experience anyway so kept it. Nice to see the engineers finally getting a win there.

(I worked on Google search like 15 years ago. I'm assuming they haven't found a way to make the estimate any more accurate, since it was seen as intractable at the time.)

when i search Google for "facebook", i get less than 100 webpages.

Google says it processed "About 25,270,000,000 results (0.28 seconds)"

why can't i see those 25 billion results? what are "results"?

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