Google says that this got 22 billion results, but there are only about 260 results.
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Google studies human behaviour and sees that almost no one is interested in exploring beyond page 15 or 16 of results.
If you don’t find what you are looking for, you are more likely to rephrase your query and ask again. This means that google gets to sell extra ads.
It also saves them money because they can optimise for fewer pages of results. Their investment can focus on speed and ads.
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It is inefficient to get all the 260 results at once when you just show one page at the time. So Google will just show the first results from the index and then guess how many results there would have been. But if you try to look into the later pages it turns out that most of the results are filtered due to being of extremely low reputation, spam sites, duplicates of other results, etc.
But it is also shown that people like getting many search results even though they almost never go past the first page and never goes past page 10. So Google is actually lying to you and deliberately overestimate how many results there are in order to make you respond better.
At the bottom of the last page, Google says:
>In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 255 already displayed.
If you like, you can [repeat the search with the omitted results included](https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+web+pages+are+there&biw=1998&bih=1100&filter=0).
If you follow that link, you can see up to 1000 results.
Google never shows more than 1000 results, but you can refine the query in order to see more of those results.
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