Ok, so that last sentence made me think of the word Google. That led me to thinking about power laws. That led to:
Yes. Yes it is. A lot of the higher number searches fall into two categories: the worst typo-squatters ever and youtube video comments/forum posts where someone is being a dick about suggesting someone search the internet to answer a question. My original plan was to stop searching at 100-o's, since that seemed to be the appropriate number. However, since I was still getting O(log10(R)) ~ 2, I figured I would keep going until it reached zero results. That happened, but it turns out to be a special case. When you have a search that includes a 125-character word, Google assumes you're just messing with it and refuses to do the search.
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