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Jean Vronis has some interesting research that he suggests raises questions about the accuracy of Google's index count.

There is a small oddity that was already noticed by many people: the count for the on the entire Web is rounded at 8 billions exactly, which is a bit suspicious. But this is not my point.

The query for the in English pages returns only 88 million pages, i.e. just above 1% of the Web total. I have some trouble accepting this result, which would mean that nearly 99% of occurrences of the string the occur in non-english pages.

This blog post, has more evidence. Your thoughts?

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