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Google's "million's of search results" are not being served in the
later pages search results

SerpApi's Google Search API results serves all the results Google
serves to users...But the amount of searches are quite different than
what is being told below the search bar.

  * Justin O'Hara

Justin O'Hara

Jul 28, 2021 * 4 min read

TABLE OF CONTENTS

SerpApi's Google Search API results serves all the results Google
serves to users...But the amount of searches are quite different than
what is being told below the search bar.

[1]SerpAPI supporting a Google Search of "coffee" with 2,660,000,000
results

A misconception regarding Google's search results is that all of the
results are being served to the user conducting that particular
search. Those 2 billion search results can't be gotten through
Google's pagination, and it seems that this number is somewhat
arbitrary to the search, or commonality of the keyword.

I rarely go past the 2nd or 3rd page of Google's search results for
any kind of query anymore, but these rankings of results are big
business with Search Engine Optimization. I wanted to do a little
case study on the actual amount of searches that get served to users
for a couple different searches.

[2]Google Search for "serpapi" with "about" 166,000 search results

Here are the breakdown of results for "serpapi" page by page until
page 15. Numbered list

 1. 4 ads, 7 organic searches
 2. 5 ads, 10 searches
 3. 5 ads, 10 searches
 4. 4 ads, 10 searches
 5. 4 ads, 10 searches
 6. 4 ads 10 search results
 7. 4 ads 10 search results
 8. 4 ads 10 search results
 9. 4 ads 10 search results
10. 4 ads 9 search results
11. 4 ads 10 search results
12. 4 ads 10 search results
13. 5 ads 10 search results
14. 2 ads 10 search results
15. 2 ads 10 search results

For these first 15 pages there was 146 search results and on average
9.7 search results pages for the first 15 pages. I got to page 15 of
the results and I came across this message at the bottom of the page.
Google stated that there was 150 results served.

[3]End of page 15 of the Google Search for "serpapi"

When I repeated the search with the omitted results there was a
slight change in results on the initial first page:

[4]Side by side of the Search with Omitted results and the original
search of "serpapi"

So I then ventured to the end of the result pagination for the search
with omitted results:

[5]38th Page of "serpapi" with the omitted results

If we averaged 9.7 results per page on the previous search, then with
this search we approximately got: 368.6 searches.

This is quite a difference between the 171,000, 166,000, and 153,000
searches that Google said that they were going to serve to us for
"serpapi".

The last test I wanted to do was manipulate the num parameter in the
search url. I set the num parameter to 100, which is the maximum
number of results you can ask on a single Google search HTML page.

[6]URL for "serpapi" for a yield of 100 results[7]

This HTML resulted in just two pages of results. So at maximum, a
user could get 200 results. But according to the same kind of
response we got to the end of page 15 of the Google Search for
"serpapi". There were 166 results.

[8]End of 2nd page of Google results "serpapi" with a num = 100
urlencoded parameter

And with the same process previously, I repeated the search with the
omitted results and the amount of results changed when I got to the
end of the 4th page.

[9]

There was a total of 392 results with the omitted search function
being ran. Which is the most accurate number of "served" results. And
quite a difference between the initial "serpapi" with no num
parameter of 166,000 "results".

It is important to note that Google's initial results without adding
extra parameters provides a very large base number of results. And
while not all the searches get returned to users, all of these
results can get scraped with SerpApi's Google Search API.

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