http://www.google.com/search?q=%22*+*%22
Should we now use "*e*" to count pages in Google's index? (currently showing around 12 billion)
"*.*" doesn't work either.

I'm surprised http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=inurl%3Aa+OR+inurl%3Ab+OR+inurl%3Ac+OR+inurl%3Ad+OR+inurl%3Ae+OR+inurl%3Af+OR+inurl%3Ag+OR+inurl%3Ah+OR+inurl%3Ai+OR+inurl%3Aj+OR+inurl%3Ak+OR+inurl%3Al+OR+inurl%3Am+OR+inurl%3An+OR+inurl%3Ao+OR+inurl%3Ap+OR+inurl%3Aq+OR+inurl%3Ar+OR+inurl%3As+OR+inurl%3At+OR+inurl%3Au+OR+inurl%3Av+OR+inurl%3Aw+OR+inurl%3Ax+OR+inurl%3Ay+OR+inurl%3Az+OR+inurl%3A1+OR+inurl%3A2+OR+inurl%3A3+OR+inurl%3A4+OR+inurl%3A5+OR+inurl%3A6+OR+inurl%3A7+OR+inurl%3A8+OR+inurl%3A9+&btnG=Search doesn't bring up more

It works for me.
25,720,000,000 results for "* *" and "*.*".

Web Results 1 – 100 of about 7,880,000,000 for inurl:a OR inurl:b OR inurl:c OR ....

ant quiers limited "we limit queries to 32 words. " ?

where a word could also be "a", "I" ,"me" etc etc
  
  

Works here too. Maybe an update is being rolled out that will stop this from working?

Like Ramibotros, I only got 7.2 billion results on that inurl query.

I never thought of doing that to count pages serched. I e-mailed Google and they wouldn't even give me a rough number. (I wanted it for a school project)