Google On Why Its Hiding Results Count In Search – Search Engine Roundtable
Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison, has finally explained why it has made it harder to find the results count when doing a Google Search. He said it can be a distraction and is something that researchers are focused on, when in reality, Google Trends provides better data for those researchers.
Sullivan wrote on Bluesky, “we do generally try to have results present the most immediately useful information. Counts tend to be something researchers are more interested in (caveat to come), so this was way to keep them available but not be distracting.”
He added, “As that article references, counts are not necessarily a measure of interest or popularity of terms, plus they are really broad estimates. Google Trends is a far more robust tool for those interested in that stuff trends.google.com/trends/.”
More recently, Google has been testing removing the results count completely, and not just hiding them under the tools menu.
Also, Google told us after it would not remove the site…
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