Google limits queries to 32 words, but most people don't need that many words. The average number of words in a Google query was 4 at the end of 2007.
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Here's a comparison between Live Search, Yahoo Search and Google Search for the query [how do you distinguish between a 64 bit and a 32 bit operating system], one of the most popular queries that start with "how do you".
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