Semantic Void

A dictionary that displays results in way similar to Google Suggest. [via]

Ever wondered how many pages does Google have indexed for search. Many of us would think that typing “*” (regular expression denoting zero or more words) would do the trick but thats not the case.

Rather to get the index count we need to first search for a term for which there are no search hits like I tried dfferwerw. Then search for all pages not containing that term like in my case -dfferwerw. This will “sort of” give you an estimate of number of pages indexed by Google. I’ll be discussing the reason behind “sort of” in my next post. The result obtained though doesnt match with the one at the Google Search home (has not been updated it seems).