Google Tests Dropping Results Estimate?

Jul 6, 2016 - 9:40 am 9 by
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When you do a search on Google, at the top, under the search box, it normally shows how many results Google was able to find. For example, a site command for [site:www.google.com] returns "About 71,000,000 results (0.26 seconds." That means Google found about 71 million pages in 0.26 seconds time.

Here is a photo of that:

Google Result Estimates

But when Derek Edmond searches in Chrome, he doesn't see the estimates come up anymore. He said "I am not seeing the # of result information for any query in chrome." He shared this screen shot on Twitter.

Google Drops Result Estimates2

Here is another photo from Derek:

Google Drops Result Estimates

Honestly, Google always said not to put too much weight on that estimate count, so Google removing it isn't a huge deal, is it?

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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