"Scott Marlowe" wrote:
>When I go to amazon.com I only ever get three pages of results. ever.
> Because they know that returning 190 pages is not that useful, as
>hardly anyone is going to wander through that many pages.
>
>Google, you'll notice says "Results 1 - 10 of about 5,610,000 for
>blacksmith" i.e. it's guesstimating as well. no reason for google to
>look at every single row for blacksmith to know that there's about 5.6
>million.
But if you go to eBay, they always give you an accurate count. Even if the no.
of items found is pretty large (example: <http://search.ebay.com/new>).
Rainer
