[Hidden-tech] Number of Google search results for a phrase - NOT the number of searches

[Shel Horowitz]

Oh, bummer! I mostly use Ecosia.org these days so my internet searches
plant trees. I hadn't realised they had stopped. I only talk to Google when
I don't get useful results there or when I want some statistical
information like that. What were they thinking?

On Mon, Jan 30, 2023, 11:56 PM Marcia Yudkin via Hidden-discuss <
hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net> wrote:

> David,
>
> Thanks, but Google trends gives the number of times people have searched
> for a term.
>
> Instead, I am looking for the number of pages that Google says contain a
> phrase. Google used to always show this.
>
> For instance, you could put in "walk the talk" and Google would say there
> were 5,367,897 pages containing that exact phrase.
>
> All best,
> Marcia
>
>
> On Monday, January 30, 2023, 04:06:46 PM EST, David Ruderman <
> david.ruderman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> You can try looking at Google trends.
> Always fun too.
> https://trends.google.com/trends/?geo=US
>
> -dave
>
>
> *Dave Ruderman (he/him)*
>
> *david.ruderman at gmail.com <david.ruderman at gmail.com>*
>
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 3:04 PM Marcia Yudkin via Hidden-discuss <
> hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm trying to find out how to discover the number of Google search results
> for a specific phrase.  (It's for an article I'm writing, not for SEO
> purposes.)
>
> Google used to show this routinely but apparently they stopped doing so in
> 2022.  I'm wondering if there's some roundabout way to still get this
> information.  Anyone know?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marcia Yudkin / Goshen
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