For example, if you search for "why wikipedia is free" (with the double quotes, or you can use [1]) you should get:<p>- About 1,920 results
- Pages 1, 2 & 3<p>Now, if you go on page 2, the page 3 will disappear from the list. If you go straight to page 3, it will be empty. Doing the latter is almost like a bug to me, because you are then on a potentially misleading page:<p>"Your search - "why wikipedia is free" - did not match any documents.<p>Suggestions:<p><pre><code> Make sure that all words are spelled correctly.
Try different keywords.
Try more general keywords."
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Which is clearly not the case since my search has "about 1,920 results".<p>Why is Google showing that page 3 in the first place? Is it related to the location and intended or is it a bug?<p>[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22why+wikipedia+is+free%22
I think people should share more about the 'censorship' with google's search results. (censorhip in air quotes to be light-hearted, not get off my free speech hatred), So many people have become accustomed to 'google it' to find truth.. but there are many pages on the internet that won't show in google results.<p>Sure I agree that with most of those (being ranked out for bad things), the world may be a better place without - but people should know that there are thousands of results on the web that they are not seeing for many searches.<p>I think for much of the world it is assumed that what is not on fbk or ggle does not exist - and people should be educated more about this.<p>search 'sex chat' and when you get to the end you click for omitted, and get 360 results. I don't think people typing that term are looking for google books the official chfi study guide - so they are clearly keeping many actual sex chat sites out of the results - and people should know that - and should probably be told why.<p>That's without getting into the issues of why two sites take up four positions in the top 10 - and why most of the top 20 are there because they can afford to slip a few thousand dollars to writers to place a story about some (usually made-up / fake) BS in a high PR site.<p>That too should be brought to the surfer's attention - these things are influences not by what the average surfer is looking for - other ranking factors are at play, and these factors push down some results that aren't as high brow as others, which may help sell ads.. not that that is what's driving that.<p>Disclaimer - I have a few sites that I want to rank in the top 10 so with a dog in the race, ymmv yada yada.. of course I've also been keeping track of those results for many years, although much less the past few I've just given up trying to get the attention of big G.
If you looks at the bottom of page 2, it'll tell you why the third page was omitted and give you a link to click so the results aren't omitted:<p>> In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 19 already displayed.<p>> If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included.
Typically, you can’t go beyond 30 pages of google search results, even when it says there are 100,000,000 results.<p>Don’t believe me? Try it. Pick any keyword to search on google, and try going to page 35.<p>Why? My guesses:<p>1. Most users have in most cases don’t need to turn to page 2 or beyond.<p>2. Fight content scraping.<p>3. Force google employees to always improve search result rankings, so users don’t need to turn to page two.