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		eli on Jan 25, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google has indexed thousands of publicly accessibl... Google makes only a rough estimate of the total number of results. Try it on any query that returns a relatively small number of results.

jrochkind1 on Jan 25, 2013 [–]

86000 is certainly a _rough_ estimate of, um, 17.

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