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Most Google searches for common words usually result in a high number of hits.

As an example, I just typed in "love", and Google returned, "About 11,840,000,000 results (0.77 seconds)".

My bet is most end users see probably the first few pages at the most. That is, they would see the most popular, "relevant" results first; so, then, the first page might show the first 25 hits (1 to 25); and then the second page the next 25 hits (26 to 50); and this pagination process seems like it should continue up until the end of the results.

My question is, suppose you wanted results 10,000,000,026 to 10,000,000,050, how do you get them to show up without clicking the Gooooooogle pagination bar over and over and over until you get it to add up to the 10,000,000,026 result?

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asked how to jump way down the results and correctly noted that the large "About X results" number is an estimate and that Google stops returning meaningful pages past a certain depth. 's pointer to command-line tooling is useful for automation, but it does not change what Google will actually serve.

Practical method to jump pages: use the start and num query parameters in the Google search URL. start is a zero-based index (so to get result N use start=N-1). num requests how many results per page (most browsers accept up to num=100, though Google may override it). Example:

https://www.google.com/search?q=love&start=1000&num=100

Limitations and alternatives: Google’s public UI and endpoints only expose roughly the first ~1000 results; attempts to request billions-deep offsets will not succeed. Google also deduplicates and filters results, so the raw count is not a list you can page through end-to-end. For deep or research-oriented retrieval, use other approaches: narrow queries (long-tail phrases, site: filters, date ranges), different search engines or their APIs (Bing, DuckDuckGo), public web archives or crawls (Common Crawl/Wayback), or your own crawler. Avoid scraping the Google web UI at scale—use official APIs and respect terms of service. For SEO work, rely on Search Console and sampling via multiple queries rather than trying to enumerate billions of positions.

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When they say "About X Results" it's just an approximation of what type of demand is in their database. After clicking through the first dozen pages or so, Google stops returning results.

commented: I think my reason for asking was I feel like Google blindsides us to a lot of stuff that we might actually enjoy seeing. +0
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