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Old 10-10-2007, 08:18 AM   #10 (permalink)
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The number of results shown in the upper right corner of the result pages could just be the estimated amount of pages that contains the terms being searched in the query. Google will only show the pages that are closest and relevant to what is being searched since they are using Latent Semantic Indexing (a process to determines the keywords and how they are used in a certain web page)...
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