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Number of results in Google Video random?!

Ludwik Trammer [PersonRank 10]

Monday, July 31, 2006
17 years ago2,628 views

For about two weeks I have new broadband connection, so I started to use Google Video a lot. Have you noticed that number of results in Google Video searches looks like they are generated by random numbers generator? You can refresh the same page and almost every time there will be different number of results.

Sometimes I have ex. 1 000 results, I go to the second result page and there is... zero results. Or Google says there are only 4 results so it doesn't display links to other results pages (however page is full of results!).

Here are some examples:

Here is second page of results for "poland". Google says there are 152,509 results – http://www.ludwik.trammer.pl/screens/google_video/gvideo152509.png

Here is the same second page of results. Now Google says there are 4 results. And still it displays full page of results, a lot more than 4 – http://www.ludwik.trammer.pl/screens/google_video/gvideo4.png

What's annoying it still thinks that there are only 4 results so it doesn't displays links to other results page at the bottom (it thinks that there aren't any) – http://www.ludwik.trammer.pl/screens/google_video/gvideo4_bottom.png

And now the very same page again, but now Google thinks there aren't any results – http://www.ludwik.trammer.pl/screens/google_video/gvideo0.png

It happens to me a lot. I've decided to test this behavior, so for about 15 minutes I've been refreshing the very same page http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=poland&page=2&so=0&lr= and making screenshot.

Here you can see those screenshots – http://www.ludwik.trammer.pl/screens/google_video/ There are about 30 different numbers of results! I bet there are infinite amount of those numbers. They are simply random ;)

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

I get 1102 search results for Poland and the number is constant.

Ludwik Trammer [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Right now I get 1101 for "poland" and the number is pretty constant, hoverer I got "12" once.

The bug isn't connected with "poland" – it can happen with any search term, but does not happen always.

dpneal [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

yeah i've had this problem in the uk for quite a while.

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