Google Hack: Accessing more than 1,000 results
August 21st, 2007
I’ve been doing a lot of work with complex search queries on Google lately. I have a script that grabs all the URLs returned for a given query. The problem is that although there are hundreds of thousands of results for most queries, Google will give you this notice if you try to get more than the first 1,000 results: “Sorry, Google does not serve more than 1000 results for any query.”
This restriction became a problem for me. After doing some research, I ran across an interesting workaround that allows you to access twice as many results. Simply include and remove a common word in your queries. For example, if you are searching for proxy and want to get 2,000 results, use these two queries:
Now you have 2,000 unique results.
Jeremy Blanchard: Student, Nerd, Enviro-geek
