How do you get to the earliest page of google search results with one step?

The problem lies in that not everybody has their Google set up for the same number of results per page.

Another thing is that the results are not in chronological order; they are in order of a number of factors other than age, the chief one being relevance. If you want the earliest one, you have to go into “Search Tools” and specify a timeframe.

@jerv is right – the results are not listed “latest to earliest”. The first result that you see in front of you is the one that Google thinks is the best one for you, and each one after that is a little bit less relevant. For this reason, most people never even bother looking beyond page 1 of their search results – because if nothing on the first page is relevant, they’ll probably get better results by changing the search terms and clicking “Search” again.

Thank you. But how do I get the that (regardless of the relevance chronology etc.) page though after I do the changing of the search term?

If there are fewer than 10 pages of results, you can click on the last page on the list (look at the bottom of the page of search results – you will see Goooooogle, with as many O’s in Google as there are pages of results, up to 10, and below that a list of page numbers). If there are more than 10 pages of results, you can click on 10, and then just keep clicking on 10 until you reach the very last page of results.

But the point is… no one would ever want the last page of results, because after one or two pages, it’s extremely unlikely that anything that shows up there will be of any interest to you. And if you have changed your search terms in order to get a better list of results, you’re still going to be finding the best results on the first page or two.

Entirely correct, @glacial. Oftentimes, once you get past the first 50 results or so, you will be pulling up stuff that is only relevant because one of the words in your search term appears on the page.

And unless your search terms are VERY specific, to the point where the most demonically-warped super-genius could find no ambiguity at all to exploit, you will get some results that you may not like. For instance, if you are looking up stuff on a Fiero (the mid-80’s Pontiac two-seater) and someone misspelled “fiery” on a page about sex with flaming goats…. well, “fiero” is on the page, so it’s relevant enough to make it to the last page of a Google search!

Given what “Fiero” translates to (wild, ferocious…), you may also find animal attacks, natural disasters, and many other things not having to do with the car.

It’s easy to find the last page of search results.

According to Google: “Sorry, Google does not serve more than 1000 results for any query. (You asked for results starting from 1000.)”

This is my strategy (Windows Vista, Chrome browser):

Go to Google.
Search something. For example: “masers”
Go to page 2 of the results.
Look up in the address bar to where it says “start=10” (or some other number)
Replace this with “start=980” and go to the modified URL.
You should find yourself on the last page of results (at least I do).

@glacial “And if you have changed your search terms in order to get a better list of results, you’re still going to be finding the best results on the first page or two.”
“But the point is… no one would ever want the last page of results.”
That is exactly where we are miscommunicating. It is not about getting the most relevant result at all. It is just about knowing how to get there.
It is a child who asked me the question who just wants to know how to do it.

See how you showed me here?
“you can click on 10, and then just keep clicking on 10 until you reach the very last page of results.” Too time consuming though.

@PhiNotPi I am using windows 8 It says _“About 691,000 results per query.” So the more latest version of windows gives us less? Too bad.—
”(You asked for results starting from 1000.)”? I did not, but anyway, your answer is what I was referring to in my detail:
If it told me how many pages of results there are, I would know how to do it,...

So the more latest version of windows gives us fewer results? Too bad.

@flo Google searches may return more than 691000 results, but they only use the first 1000 of those. Google is platform-independent.

Also, you did not ask for results starting at 1000. I did, and that was the message that I received.

@PhiNotPi 1000 websites not pages right?
And isn’t the 1st page mostly about which website is is clicked the most number of times among the ones that contain the search result words?

….By 1000 websites not pages right? I meant _result_pages.

@flo Yes, 1000 websites, not result pages.

What websites appear on the front page is a result of a highly complex (and secret) algorithm that is based off of many factors:
– Where search terms are located in the website, how often they are found, and where they are located relative to each other.
– The popularity of the website, both for the given search terms and for other search terms
– The quality of the website, which improves with detailed and relevant paragraphs, and decreases with duplicate content and irrelevant text
– Geographic location
– The quantity and location of links within that webpage, and their destinations.
– The number, quality, and popularity of other websites that link to the webpage in question.
– Hundreds of other factors

Oh my goodness.

@PhiNotPi Edited: In this post, there should be no “per query” in there. It just said “About 691,000 (....sec)” whatever the number of seconds were.

Now I remember why I don’t have children….