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		c7b on Sept 9, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google pays ‘enormous’ sums to maintain search-eng... Thanks for posting here. Some questions: can you confirm that the estimates are unbiased in the statistical sense? Do you have an API for accessing the other ones, the help page for my locale doesn't mention anything? If not, how do you justify showing a very high number of results that users can't access?

nonasktell on Sept 9, 2022 [–]

it's probably a protection against scraping

and yeah there is probably billions of mentions of any single word out there if you count the computer generated content

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