Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, has lastly defined why it has made it harder to find the results count when doing a Google Search. He mentioned it may be a distraction and is one thing that researchers are targeted on, when in actuality, Google Tendencies gives higher information for these researchers.
Sullivan wrote on Bluesky, “we do typically attempt to have outcomes current probably the most instantly helpful info. Counts are usually one thing researchers are extra excited about (caveat to return), so this was approach to preserve them out there however not be distracting.”
He added, “As that article references, counts will not be essentially a measure of curiosity or recognition of phrases, plus they’re actually broad estimates. Google Tendencies is a much more strong software for these excited about that stuff tendencies.google.com/tendencies/.”
Extra just lately, Google has been testing removing the results count utterly, and never simply hiding them under the tools menu.
Additionally, Google advised us after it might not remove the site command from Google Search, Google mentioned the identical in 2017. Google even mentioned they’d fight to keep it regardless of the site command’s flaws.
However we have seen bugs and checks the place Google has removed the estimated rely, numerous times and it appears it’s taking place once more.
Right here is the way to discover the outcomes rely – beneath “Instruments”:
Discussion board dialogue at Bluesky.
