From the documentation here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn760793.aspx
It says:
totalEstimatedMatches:
The estimated number of news articles that are relevant to the query. Use this number along with the count and offset query parameters to page the results.
However, there are some serious issues.
1.The returned number of results is ALWAYS less than the requested number in the "count" variable. For example, setting a count=100 results in only 75 results.
2.What's more, even skipping the difference and sending another query to the API with an offset (in this example, offset=100), the API returns a new totalEstimatedMatches!! (first query was 70k results, second time was 138)
What is going on here? How do we fully get the totalEstimatedMatches returned from the first query? Or is that a bogus inflated number?