This may not be new to you, but it’s new to me. Whenever you search for something in Google, it comes back with a huge number (I’m too poor in maths to count it). I searched for my name “Abhishek.”
The result is in the image below.
The big number: 4,730,000. Now I want to see 1,000 results, so I add &num=100&start=990 to the query.
(You can learn more about this at Google Help Center.)
So the query is:
https://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&q=Abhishek&num=100&start=990
and the output is as follows.
Hell! Only 1,000 search results are available — then why show a big number like 4,730,000? Is that a method to make people feel like they’ve crawled the whole web? Why, dear Google?