[LINK] Email Obfuscation Helps Spammers: Google returns 27 million results for "* at * dot com"

[Rick Welykochy]

Kim Holburn wrote:
> 
> On 2007/Jun/18, at 12:16 AM, Ivan Trundle wrote:
>> But what I don't understand is the multiplication of results by Kim. 
>> My understanding is that Google lists the number of results across all 
>> pages, then shows a subset of that number per your preferences set.
>>
>> Consequently, 'World' Google sees 2,000 more hits than 'Oz' Google. 
>> Neither sees 19+ million, though.
>>
>> Or am I missing something vital here? What are the 'hits' that you're 
>> referring to, Kim?
> 
> I have google set to show 50 results per page.  It says there are 
> 394,000 pages and I assume each with 50 hits, the last page may of 
> course have less than 50.  That's why I did the multiply.  That is right 
> isn't it?

Google states the following:

Results 1 - 10 of about 403,000 for at*dot*au.

No need to multiply anything. I think thee doth think too much, Kim!



cheers
rickw



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