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Dr Gadgit24-May-15 2:52
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I've been scanning Google search results for months now using only googles .Com, .BE and Co.UK but for the life of me I cannot seem to get more than about 850k unique domain names.

At first I used about one thousand hand coded search terms and read the first ten pages returned from google that included about a hundred results per page and soon got to about half a million domains but then it slowed down to a stop as it reached 700k.

Six months later I ran a scan to see how many of the 700k sites had gone 404 and also had the DNS entry removed and found that the number of sites up and running were dropping like flies (top of head, about 20% gone)

Now I have a whopping twenty seven thousand search terms pulled from meta data and have been throwing these (Very slowly) at Google and have reached about 850k domains in the database and it has all but come to a stop again and the 850k includes about 20% that went dead pulled six month previously.

I read once that the internet contains about a billion websites not that I believed these numbers and many of the domains I have collected point to foreign sites in places like China or Korea so it is a bit of a mixed bag of results and I also understand that many domain have been parked (lots are linked back to fake sites sharing the same IP and running add-words, google does not mind) but this 850k numbers I am seeing does not look anywhere near the 5-20 million that I was originally expecting.


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