Our search result page shows 50123 result on search result page 1, 49567 on page 2, 48945 on page 3, 50327 on page 4 and on and on.
This causes confusion on our users, and they wonder about it. Why does it differ?
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2My wild guess is that SharePoint to save performance only estimates the total number of results for the query. And the closer you get to the end of the results list, the more accurate this approximation becomes. I have thought about checking out exactly how this works behind the scenes, but I have not gotten the time. – Robert Lindgren Jan 11 '14 at 08:15
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@RobertLindgren you are right. Write up your response as the answer. – Matthew McDermott Jan 12 '14 at 13:25
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1I have done accordingly @MatthewMcDermott :) – Robert Lindgren Jan 12 '14 at 20:11
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My (not so) wild guess is that SharePoint to save performance only estimates the total number of results for the query. And the closer you get to the end of the results list, the more accurate this approximation becomes.
I have thought about checking out exactly how this works behind the scenes, but I have not gotten the time.
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1We had reported similar case to Microsoft and the answer we got is that it is by design. – Sudhir Kesharwani Jan 21 '14 at 20:32
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thanks Robert and Sudhir . I was struggling to find out an answer for this. – samolpp2 Feb 01 '17 at 18:27