Comments on: Google result counts http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2005/09/27/google-result-counts/ Kevin Dangoor on Creating Software Products Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:58:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: stvor.blogsome.com :: google hits - Do it yourself trend analiser :: October :: 2005 http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2005/09/27/google-result-counts/#comment-3545 stvor.blogsome.com :: google hits - Do it yourself trend analiser :: October :: 2005 Tue, 11 Oct 2005 11:35:04 +0000 http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2005/09/27/google-result-counts/#comment-3545 [...] It would be even better if we know how google estimates numer of resultst since as Kevin Dangoor points out that numer doesn’t nececery show numer of actualy results [...] [...] It would be even better if we know how google estimates numer of resultst since as Kevin Dangoor points out that numer doesn’t nececery show numer of actualy results [...]

]]> By: ricardo niederberger cabral http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2005/09/27/google-result-counts/#comment-2828 ricardo niederberger cabral Thu, 29 Sep 2005 00:34:18 +0000 http://www.blueskyonmars.com/2005/09/27/google-result-counts/#comment-2828 They probably have a separate index bucket for keywords yielding the amount of results that "turbogears" seems to generate (also considering how fast the number of matches this keyword gets has been growing lately) and so it comes up with such an estimate to all keywords that fall on this same bucket. On a side note, I wrote several months ago a quick and dirty python script to query a predefined set of keywords and store the amount of results google guesses, as a way to track the growth of hits on google for these specific keywords. It's available at http://rnc000.blogspot.com/2005/09/google-hits.html (you may need gnuplot to draw the graphs from the generated data and a daily cron job) They probably have a separate index bucket for keywords yielding the amount of results that “turbogears” seems to generate (also considering how fast the number of matches this keyword gets has been growing lately) and so it comes up with such an estimate to all keywords that fall on this same bucket.

On a side note, I wrote several months ago a quick and dirty python script to query a predefined set of keywords and store the amount of results google guesses, as a way to track the growth of hits on google for these specific keywords. It’s available at
http://rnc000.blogspot.com/2005/09/google-hits.html
(you may need gnuplot to draw the graphs from the generated data and a daily cron job)

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