Wreck havoc

[Chris Waigl]

Chris Waigl wrote:

>If I search for "wreaked | wreaked | wreaking | wreaks havoc" (with the
>quotation marks, on google.com, on whichever server I am sent to from
>Europe), 100 results per page, skip to the last page (i.e. click on page
>10), Google indicates a count of 1,630,000. This is still at least ~30%
>too high (page 10 is in fact page 8, with only about 10 results: the
>remaining 290 hits out of the 1000 Google displays at most are spam
>pages, filled with words drawn from dictionaries and other pseudo-text;
>their frequency can be expected to rise in the pages that aren't
>displayed, since Google sorts by pertinence).
>
>Similarly, "wreaked | wreaked | wreaking | wreaks havoc" gets you
>
>
First, this should read "wreck...", and second I see what was wrong with
my searches. I get roughly the same numbers as you do, now (minus the
~30% at least, from spam). But my point about the lack of reliable
searches stands.

Chris Waigl