| |
At some point you will decide to take a
look at page 10 of the search results before you
actually go through them in order.
Google apparently does not find enough results
sometimes to fill all the results
pages for a query. It always fills them in order
starting with Page 1. (I know this doesn't make
sense - the number of results listed at the top
of the search usually is tremendous. I decided
not to complain - they obviously know what they
are doing.)
When you select the results pages in order, you will
sometimes come to one that did not get filled
completely, or that was just the last one to be
filled. You will see that the index of results
pages at that point will show only the actual
number of results pages.
(Example: 1 2 3 4 5 - there are a maximum of 50
results, 10 on each page.)
If you had decided to jump ahead and pick result
page 10, Google would tell you that there are NO
results from the search. And all of them
disappear. We call this
THE GLITCH. Google has been notified, and is
obviously working on the problem (it
has
improved.)
This can be
aggravating, but all you have to do to recover
is to click the gray query box in the search
bar. Your query will still be there. The search
will be repeated and you can
continue.
It's easy to avoid this problem
-- always browse search
results starting with page 1 and don't skip
any pages. Not hard to do.
|
|
|