Comments on: How Big is Google’s Index?

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 06:35:50 +0000

As of september 13th, 2008 @ about 1.34am i searched for “a” in google.ca and it returned

Results 1 – 100 of about 25,320,000,000 English pages for a. (0.09 seconds)

25.32 billion pages.

By: jim

jim — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:07:02 +0000

odd…
-’a.$&%!@?* turns in slightly more results than
*-’a.$&%!@
but
it only yeilds 13,320,000,000 results on google for me… and this is a year and a half later!
also the other two supposed 25 billion result suggestions yeild like 1-5 billion O,o weird lol
and the internet is DEFINUTELY bigger in 1.5 years so idk whats up

By: Erik

Erik — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:23:10 +0000

The thing is that Google never has nor ever will return the exact number of matches for a query. They are all estimates. Hence finding the “perfect” query is pointless!

By: Axl

Axl — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 22:21:50 +0000

I found one that yields 25,270,000,000 results. It is building off of the query of L0j1k. I just included a very common part of most Japanese sentences, a part that marks the subject of a sentence. It returns another 2 billion 2 hundred thousand pages :) Here it is:

or | -or +* OR ã¯

Sorry if you can’t see the Japanese part, you’ll need to have Japanese fonts enabled :)

By: Axl

Axl — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 22:20:49 +0000

By: L0j1k

L0j1k — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 02:47:01 +0000

I have found the ultimate query, yielding (as of this comment) 23,070,000,000 results:

or | -or +*

Also, the number of yielded results seems to be incrementing. It went up by 40 million over the span of about an hour.

By: Loren Baker, Editor

Loren Baker, Editor — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 16:36:23 +0000

Good tip Scott!

By: Scott Fish SEO

Scott Fish SEO — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 16:21:02 +0000

I have found: *-’a.$&%!@ yields 19,320,000,000 results. I have a feeling that some-how if you search all the “variable” keys, this will show you all the results in google.