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five months pass...
is there any way to display the number of results for a Google Books search, or has that feature been removed for good?
it probably doesn't matter anyways, since the results are limited for no discernible reason. if you search for "tip of my tongue" without a date filter, you get 10 pages of results, but it gives you a "your search did not match any book results" prompt if you go beyond page 6. if you search for the same term but limit the date range to 2010 to 2013, you get 5 pages of results and a "did not match" prompt after page 4. and for some reason the number of results will vary depending on whether you sort them by date or relevance. I don't think it was always that bad, but maybe I just have a rosy view of the past
six months pass...
nice , it looks like google just crippled another of its products :D:D:D:D:D
until recently the results page for google groups (google's usenet search engine) looked like this:
https://i.imgur.com/qurZwr3.jpg
each result would have the subject line and group name on one line, and beneath that would be a decent-sized snippet containing your search terms, similar to the regular google web search
in the new layout, the subject lines, group names, and snippets are crammed into a single line for each result:
https://i.imgur.com/yRD6Uy4.jpg
some of the snippets are as short as five words long and don't even include the search terms, making it difficult to determine which results are relevant without clicking through to the messages. until recently you could revert back to the "classic" (i.e. functional) layout, but that's no longer possible
it's kinda sad that I've been bumping this thread for eight years, but the hits just keep on comin'
― unregistered, Saturday, 21 November 2020 15:17 (three years ago) link