# What's the smallest number with no Google hits?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-smallest-number-with-no-google-hits/692732
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [July 9, 2014, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-smallest-number-with-no-google-hits/692732 "2014-07-09T23:17:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2014, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-smallest-number-with-no-google-hits/692732/1 "2014-07-09T23:17:24Z")
“Your search - 58732081455 - did not match any documents.”
That eleven digits. But it appears that all ten digit numbers will return a listing of US phone numbers within an area code range, as well as 11-digit numbers beginning with 1. Maybe I should have put this in the Game Room.
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### Author:  [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2014, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-smallest-number-with-no-google-hits/692732/2 "2014-07-09T23:26:12Z")
aka[googlewhack](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googlewhack). It was A Thing about ten-15 years ago.
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### Author:  [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)
#### Post date: [July 9, 2014, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-smallest-number-with-no-google-hits/692732/3 "2014-07-09T23:27:51Z")
I don’t know, but if you post it here then it will no longer have 0 hits.
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### Author:  [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2014, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-smallest-number-with-no-google-hits/692732/4 "2014-07-10T00:01:03Z")
It’s not [241543903,](http://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&q=241543903&gbv=2&oq=241543903&gs_l=img.3..0l10.540.540.0.1439.1.1.0.0.0.0.276.276.2-1.1.0....0...1ac.1.34.img..0.1.276.16G0MTHNlE8) that’s for certain.
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### Author:  [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2014, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-smallest-number-with-no-google-hits/692732/5 "2014-07-10T00:55:46Z")
-17,001,012,013,014 has no hits, but then -17,001,012,013,015 is even smaller and also has none.
Perhaps that’s not what you mean; the number may need to be positive. I got nothing for
0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000004000000000000000000000000000131
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### Author:  [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2014, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-smallest-number-with-no-google-hits/692732/6 "2014-07-10T01:24:23Z")
> [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](#):
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> -17,001,012,013,014 has no hits, but then -17,001,012,013,015 is even smaller and also has none.
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> Perhaps that’s not what you mean; the number may need to be positive. I got nothing for
> 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000004000000000000000000000000000131
That has one hit.
[https://www.google.com/search?q=0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000004000000000+000000000000000000131&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=rcs](https://www.google.com/search?q=0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000004000000000+000000000000000000131&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=rcs)
It has zero if you take out the space.
[https://www.google.com/search?q=0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000004000000000+000000000000000000131&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=rcs#channel=rcs&q=0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000004000000000000000000000000000131&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official](https://www.google.com/search?q=0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000004000000000+000000000000000000131&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=rcs#channel=rcs&q=0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000004000000000000000000000000000131&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official)
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### Author:  [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2014, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-smallest-number-with-no-google-hits/692732/7 "2014-07-10T11:09:35Z")
OP, I assume you’re talking about natural numbers?
Google has this thread indexed now, so whatever we post, we ruin, but it looks like yours was a pretty good contender. I tried a random ten-digit number with 2, 3, 4, and 5 prepended to it, and got matches for each version.
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### Author:  [@Bootis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootis)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2014, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-smallest-number-with-no-google-hits/692732/8 "2014-07-12T02:39:15Z")
> [@chrisk](#):
>
> OP, I assume you’re talking about natural numbers?
>
> Google has this thread indexed now, so whatever we post, we ruin, but it looks like yours was a pretty good contender. I tried a random ten-digit number with 2, 3, 4, and 5 prepended to it, and got matches for each version.
1410172100eight
has 0 results. for now. 🙂
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### Author:  [@MichaelHardner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelHardner)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2016, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-smallest-number-with-no-google-hits/692732/9 "2016-10-07T23:14:30Z")
That number no longer works.
I will submit this: 29999932999+1
God I love numbers…
[http://www.mapleleafweb.com/forums/profile/201-michael-hardner/?do=content&type=core\_statuses\_status&change\_section=1](http://www.mapleleafweb.com/forums/profile/201-michael-hardner/?do=content&type=core_statuses_status&change_section=1)
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### Author:  [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2016, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-smallest-number-with-no-google-hits/692732/10 "2016-10-08T01:57:02Z")
There’s a games thread where people are counting up from zero-they’re up to 4626…