Number of google pages hits as a function of time

Question

In each search in Google one can see number of google pages found. Is it possible to find what was this number in the past?

Answer 1

Best what you can try is Google Zeitgeist. It doesn't give amount of found pages, but it gives insights of popularity of keywords, example: "stackoverflow". You can also check the popularity of a website, example: stackoverflow.com.

No other Google services comes to mind for your particular purpose.

Answer 2

No this number is not available. You could run the query and parse the Google results to capture the information, but I read the terms of use before you try to do that. In most case it will be against the terms of usage to do something like that.