How can there be "1000 search results per query?" no matter what the query is?

If you can find more than a few dozen relevant results, you are very fortunate. By posting the 1,000 most relevant results for a search, you can give the person either more detail than they ever wanted, or a strong indication that their search terms were too vague.

So it boils down to whether you actually want information, or whether you just want random stuff. In the former case, 1,000 results is enough, in the latter, search is unnecessary.

Isn’t there an advanced search feature that allows you to choose the number of results you want.

@YARNLADY Not to my knowledge. The closest there is that I know of is the ability to alter the number of results per page.

Why would you need more than 1000 results? Usually when you get that many results only 10 or so will be exactly what you need. Several dozen will be loosely related to what you need but not really useful. All of the rest are filler crap.

If you need more than 1000 because you aren’t getting enough relevant results and need more crap to sift through, you fail at Google. Learn to search better.

@keobooks “Learn to search better.”
That is exactly what I’m trying to do though.

This page has basic search tips and a link to more advanced search tips.

Getting more hits is not going to help you find stuff. You want to be able to be specific enough that you get more relevant hits and less chaff. It’s better to get 20 perfect matches than 1000 worthless matches.

@YARNLADY thank you, by the way I’m trying to find out how to get to the earliest page, just not the the most relevant (best match) for my search.
@keobooks same as above.

Considering how irrelevant the results get after the first few dozen, and that many searches have at least hundreds of thousands of results, you REALLY don’t want that, even if you think you do. Trust us!

As for chronologically earliest, that is a whole separate thing.

But this thread is really about how come in Chrome and Vista, everything is limited to 1000 resuts? 1000 websites not pages.

Imagine if people are asking me how to get to the store x, and they told me they know it is the worst store, they just want to see how bad it is. I would just tell them how to get there.

What you are actually asking is, “If I ask you how to get to the store, will you give me instructions on how to walk?”. Now, if you really want to know (and have not understood the answer that has been repeated a few times) then I will post a recipe for chocolate cake; it will be about as relevant to the question you asked as anything you will find as far down on the list of Google search results as you want to go.

As stated previously, the answer is relevance. If you cannot accept that answer then I don’t think an acceptable answer exists.

It’s also worth noting that if the information you are seeking isn’t within the first few dozen results, then you aren’t looking for the right thing; you need to improve your search terms. Using the correct search terms is the key to using Google (or any other search engine). As with anything else, the key to getting the right information is asking the right questions.

BTW, Firefox on Win7 and Dolphin under Android 4.2 do the same thing. See, Google feels the same way about relevance and doesn’t feel like wasting it’s server’s processing time on results that have a 99.9999999999999% chance of not being what the searcher is looking for. Sure your search might be trivial, but everybody else’s is too; put a few billion of them together and even the least little thing that reduces server load will have dramatic effects.

This is like saying “I can’t find the needle in this haystack. How do I get more hay?”

Someone else provided the answer.

Well, knock yourself out then. Dig in all that extra useless dirt and have a blast finding nothing useful.

Thanks for letting me see know how challenging my OP (about how to get to Google’s earliest page of any given search) is.

It wasn’t really that challenging. It’s not something I’d advise doing. I am a professional librarian. I have been trained in reference and research. You are trying to do the exact opposite of what is considered wise by professionals who do searches hundreds of times a day every day for 8 hours a day as part of their profession.

The WHOLE POINT OF GOOD RESEARCHING ON GOOGLE is to get LESS HITS that are MORE RELEVANT. NOT MORE HITS that are MOST LIKELY LESS RELEVANT.

You want to get LESS HITS that are MORE RELEVANT. MORE HITS are NOT BETTER.

It seriously is like trying to find a needle in a haystack and when you fail to do so, you ask for more hay. It makes it HARDER to find what you need to find when you have more noise in your signal to noise ratio.

Your question was NOT challenging. I was hoping that you’d take the advice of a professional researcher and NOT do something very foolish and a waste of time. It’s not like librarians just get their degrees off a back of a cereal box and start googling like crazy. There are actual methods we learn.

But once again.. if you want to take my utter frustration at your being obtuse as a victory, go ahead. You win the prize. DING DING DING!!!

Again, thanks!