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You are correct: http://www.google.com/search?q=blue&start=1000

> Sorry, Google does not serve more than 1000 results for any query. (You asked for results starting from 1000.)

Results 811 - 817 of about 687,000,000 for test [definition]. (2.19 seconds) after seeing this, I doubt whether 687,000,000 is correct or not..

Term counting is the hello world of map-reduce examples, so while that number is obviously not exact (exactly 687 million?), it's reasonably accurate, considering the actual use of the count, which is more useless the bigger it is. No one created the opposite of Google Whack, finding the terms that yielded the most results; that's largely uninteresting when the counts are in the hundreds of millions range.

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