Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Ambigous results by Google !!!

Check this out .... I typed "link:blogs.sun.com/SC" on the search bar and see what it gives ...
(Sorry for such a bad image .. Could help it .. I wanted to capture the entire page !!!)

If you notice carefully at the bottom it shows 5 pages to come in the 1st page ..



when you click "next" ... it shows 5 pages to go in the 2nd page ..



But now when you click "next" again it shows 3rd page as the last page !!!!


Where are the other pages which it promised before ? Aasa Dosa Appalam Vada !!!!


Some random surfing i landed at the Google webmaster tools which gives statistics about urls .. I was surprised to see this strange behavior .. When you type in the google search bar any url prefixed by the "link:" keyword it gives you all the Back Links for the given URL .. But the count that shows up on the top-right corner of the results is mis-leading and more importantly erroneous ??

What does the "Results 21 - 22 of about 60 linking to blogs.sun.com/SC. (0.18 seconds)" mean ? I dont think 22 is about 60 ? Do you ? In some cases it has only 600 results but it shows about 15000 !!!