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Google search algorithm ranks websites mainly by their number of links from other external domains.
I think that the explanation for the limited number of sites that you found, is that not all of the billion websites in existence have links enough pointing at them in order to gain a ranking that justifies (for Google) their inclusion in search results.
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"Google search algorithm ranks websites mainly by their number of links from other external domains."
To some degree you must be right because lots of people banging on about SEO who earn a living from it spend their nights spamming sites (Organic grouth thye call it) but nothing beats paying google some money to hit top of the page.
I was reading 1000 links per search term and i don't think i would have got many more unique Url's even if i read 10,000 per search, they just ran out of domains as far as i could see at about 800k
I am sure i could get lots more domains from alexa.com and faster by running a web-bot but the point I want to make is that Google now hides most of the internet, goodbye little guys, well hello controlled opersition or paying customers.
Gone are the days where "Little Mrs Smith" will help you knit a pair of socks and pay for her site using a few adverts, no sir, it's all in Ebay or Wikipedia,Facebook it's all you need to know in life.
Google is in court every other week and having to pay fines so it's not like we can trust them to give us the truth and they are part of a monoply, we all know the names of the next six players in the game and i for one don't think that this is a good thing for any of us.
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I wouldn't be surprised to find that Google also trims the tail. Any site with only one or two links probably isn't interesting to anybody, so why waste the disk space.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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Quote: the 5-20 million that I was originally expecting
Well, there's your problem! I see no reason to expect anything of the sort especially when you've conducted the search in such an arbitrary fashion. How many sites are intentionally excluded from Google? How many are referenced by their IP address only? Casting your net in the Google Sea is no more likely to allow you to identify every domain any more than casting it in the Indian Ocean would get you every species of fish.
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"How many sites are intentionally excluded from Google"
Lot's i would say but it never use to be that way and was more a level playing field but today you are forced to play by googles rules, google special meta tags in HTML pages, Google spyware scripts on the site and then to not poke your neck out too much.
Censorship in my book but most people don't see it.
Well done, nail on the head
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To continue the fishing analogy this is casting the net 27,000 times in different locations within the sea, I'd say it should return a decent reflection of the overall fish in the Google ocean.
Good experiment, I always doubted the billions upon billions of web pages supposedly searched to return my results in a fraction of a second.
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I love this experiment in reality vs. theory! I agree with your premise and expected results. Results of a simple .com test should be in the tens-of-millions results.
http://www.internetlivestats.com/total-number-of-websites/
Is there any way to take your same experiment and test against Bing and Ask? I expect that you are scraping the google results DOM or something like that, so maybe not feasible.
No matter how "big data" you are, there just isn't enough computing power to iterate through billions of *raw* records for the 5.7 billion daily searches. You transform data, then search on the transformed result.
This very well might be a result of the google data transformation layer filtering out the millions of sites that don't have a high confidence score for your search terms.
I think you are finding how powerful search engines are...they define our internet reality. Companies go out of business when google drops their URL. Just the past few weeks, windows developers have complained about their google Ad revenue dropping by up to 95%.
Must feel good to have the power to nuke entire companies and industries by dropping them from search results.
Robert
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A first-grade teacher, Ms. Brooks, was having trouble with one of her students. The teacher asked, “Harry, what’s your problem?” Harry answered, “I’m too smart for the 1st grade. My sister is in the 3rd grade and I’m smarter than she is! I think I should be in the 3rd grade too!”
Ms. Brooks had had enough. She took Harry to the principal’s office.
While Harry waited in the outer office, the teacher explained to the principal what the situation was. The principal told Ms. Brooks he would give the boy a test. If he failed to answer any of his questions he was to go back to the 1st grade and behave. She agreed.
Harry was brought in and the conditions were explained to him and he agreed to take the test.
Principal: “What is 3 x 3?”
Harry: “9.”
Principal: “What is 6 x 6?”
Harry: “36.”
And so it went with every question the principal thought a 3rd grader should know.
The principal looks at Ms. Brooks and tells her, “I think Harry can go to the 3rd grade.”
Ms. Brooks says to the principal, “Let me ask him some questions.”
The principal and Harry both agreed.
Ms. Brooks asks, “What does a cow have four of that I have only two of?”
Harry, after a moment: “Legs.”
Ms. Brooks: “What is in your pants that you have but I do not have?”
The principal wondered why would she ask such a question!
Harry replied: “Pockets.”
Ms. Brooks: “What does a dog do that a man steps into?”
Harry: “Pants.”
The principal was trembling.
Ms. Brooks: “What word starts with an ‘F’ and ends in ‘K’ that means a lot of heat and excitement?”
Harry: “Firetruck.”
The principal breathed a sigh of relief and told the teacher, “Put Harry in the fifth-grade, I got the last four questions wrong myself.”
I'll get my coat. 
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha
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Thanks for pointing that out. And only 3 years ago. How could I have missed that! 
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha
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A highly dangerous virus called "Weekly Overload Recreational Killer" (WORK) is currently going around, indiscriminately attacking CP members worldwide. If you come into contact with the WORK virus, you should go immediately to the nearest "Biological Anxiety Relief" (BAR) center, to take antidotes known as "Work Isolating Neutralizer Extract" (WINE), Radioactive UnWORK Medicine (RUM), "Bothersome Employer Elimination Rebooter" (BEER) or "Vaccine Official Depression Killing Antigen" (VODKA). Don't wait! Protect yourself! Do it now!
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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I was fully vaccinated with copious quantities of those (and Work Hating Immunization Serum Keeping Employees Younger) when I was a mere strippling!
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Aaaaaah! Whiskey: The right stuff to pickle any liver and make it last forever! 
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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I had hoped to stumble across a presentation as visually beautiful and sensual as last year's Polish entry [^]; instead, all I saw was:
1. feral amazons dressed-to-kill snarling through Las Vegas scream-a-thons.
2. young-folks from countries where dancing is, evidently, either an unknown art, or a form of martial art involving using spastic movements to dis-orient opponents.
3. the usual bo-toxed talking-head commentators stoned on methamphetamine and/or steroids, engaging in glossolalia with shards of trivia barely able to crawl through.
4. horrible, crude, cgi backdrop animations of machinery a la steam-punk spawning cheap knock-off Geiger style nightmare-techno.
The only enjoyable moment my half-hour meandering about the final produced was when I realized ... afterwards ... I had not seen Ms. EuroVision 2014, Conchita Wurst, simpering through "Droop like a Phoenix."
Yes: why did I bother ? Poland where are you when I need you ?
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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Hey come on Bill! They let Australia into Europe this year!
(I think the organisers were secretly hoping the Ozzies would win, and it would never involve Europe again...)
I can't comment on the performances, as I had prior engagements and couldn't watch it. Cutting my toenails, watching grass grow, paint dry - that sort of thing.
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Come to think of it, thanks, that is interesting that Oz got in.
What next: that nest into which I made a bloody entrance from undifferentiated eternity about 930 moon-cycles ago ... Corporate Occupied Mallburgerland, aka (euphemistically) America ?
... after all, if America is not the troglodytic spawn of Europe and England/Scotland/Ireland ... what is it ?
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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Given the Aussies cultural contributions to the world, it was only a matter of time before they joined such a monumental battle of puerile entertainment, badly performed.
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It looks like this year also poor koalas are dying... 
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it's worth sticking through the show just for those embarrassing conscious hardly-scripted-at-all "chats" they insist on having 
Oh - and the half-time entertainment was full of suspense - would the little drummer boy remember to smile when he looked up - again - into the camera?
Speaking of suspense - we were on the edge of our various seats and laying reasonable odds on the commentator's tits falling out during the scoring.
Still, the most exciting thing in my book was when they meant to cut to the artists green room, and actually cut to a close-up of an audience-member's cleavage.
You could almost hear the director's screams of "Null Point!"
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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You knew it was over when the winner was a tranny last year and it just TPTB laughing at us.
Swedon won or so i am told this year, the state that kidnapps your children if you step out of line, not a place i would vist even if I still like Abba
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Dr Gadgit wrote: the state that kidnapps your children if you step out of line
Would you mind substantiating that.
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Google is your freind
The place has a bad name for it and you can even find a documentary on the subject.
Here we have family courts and gag orders used the same way but it's no where near as bad as in Swedon
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The number of children in foster care in Sweden is almost exactly equal as a proportion of population to the number in the USA and is by no means exceptional in Europe. Sweden does have a disproportionately noisy lobby group opposed to state involvement in child care but the cynical view that this is largely because Sweden has one of the most child centred welfare programmes on the planet and parents are really arguing for the right to be nastier and more controlling to their children is not wholly unjustified! Propaganda on its behalf should definitely be taken with large quantities of sodium chloride!
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Don't know and it's hard to know what is propaganda and whats not these days.
"parents are really arguing for the right to be nastier"
I smack my kids with pride when needs be and I don't need the state or anyone else telling me what to do as a parent if thats what you are getting at.
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