Thread by @henkvaness

Google has a serious flaw. In the past, adding words would reduce the number of results. However, sometimes the numbers go up, as shown below. Why? (1/...) #osint

First thing you should know, is that you can't see all 356,000 answers that Google is predicting in the question below. In reality, it will give you only about 130 answers. How can you find out? (2/..)

You can use my example, "how many answers" and click the highest number. Your settings determine how many results appear on a page (some use 10, some 100). (3/...)

While working in Warsaw for a client, we missed interesting information because the real number of results you can check is maxed out by Google, often never higher than 500 (4/...)

So how do you get the "missing" answers? By repeating your search with some Google dorks, so you have more control over the outcome. (5/...)

It helps to search for specific documents, if applicable. Now you just saw that searching for "how many answers" just gave 130 hits. Now look at this: (6/...)

It went up from around 130 to 199 and we can all browse the documents. You really should save this thread and reread it every day :) For serious research, ignore always the "About 6,360,000,000 results (0.61 seconds) ". It has no value anymore (7/...)

That's why I think radio hosts should stop games like "Who is the most popular artist according to Google: Lady Gaga or Madonna" . The outcome will always be erratic. (8/8)

So how do y fix this? By using any means that you have to tilt the table: quotations marks for single words, if you are sure about the word, a site reference to your own country if possible, like site:de, excluding site domains, use file type:pdf if possible or other filters(9/9)