If you have about 3 to 5 minutes and the appropriate patience .. try out this experiment...

Google "honey badger" (using google.com, not another search engine. Specifically use google in this instance)

I got about 14,200,000 results (0.36 seconds)

Keep paging down.

When prompted continue clicking More results

After about 30 pages worth ... you'll see this

In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 319 already displayed.

If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included.

Go ahead and repeat the search with omitted results included

I got about 16,700,000 results (0.29 seconds)

Keep paging down. When prompted continue clicking More results.

After about 30 pages ... reaches the end

Quantity and type of search results whether omitting similar results or not are about the same, and limited to a few hundred. Lots of YouTube video links. Lots of controlled article links.

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Here is a video of this phenomenon in action

https://v.nostr.build/nJKg.mp4

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They know the average search would likely not look past the first 300 results.... basically an SEO festival for the first 300 search results

So instead of actually displaying 100's of thousands of page results, all we get are the pages and links they've approved for viewing 🧐

What are you trying to say here Vic? That there’s really not that many results or that they are censoring millions of results

There are more likely millions of actual resources google has seen but is censoring vs the few hundred it now reveals. 14.7 million? 16.2 million? possibly overestimated. Google is operating more like a manicured index vs a search engine.

Something I always ask myself when I see 'relevant filter' is who and how is decided what's relevant for me see and in what that's based on. 'Relevant' is not really clear.

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