* Mikey C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-29 17:10]: > Do you imagine Google loads 8 billions records into memory when > the user is just viewing 10 results in page 5 after a broad > search?
You can’t ask Google for more than the first 1,000 hits on any search. (Go ahead and try.) There is a reason for that. Likewise the number Google presents for the total is just an estimate. There is a reason for that too. At the same time, to my knowledge, a query which has an `ORDER BY` clause always has to produce all results before it can apply a `LIMIT` to the result set, so at least in that case, what you want should be possible. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
