How many items on Google Base

The most i can get at the moment is 1,003,285. The search query used is here, can anyone get a higher number using something else....btw this query was done at 10:37pm UK time...so dont count the small additions people keep making to Google Base.

On a more technical note....does Google Base make use of that BigTable technology built in-house by Google. Another article tries to explain the main details behind this. I think this is the sort of thing that Google excels at. Sorting out data...general computer science style architectures and algorithms...but scaled up like a million times.

Whats next for this technology...would small businesses trust Google enough to allow their complete business to be backed up into Google's Database in exchange for perhaps free hosting and faster searches? Is this the moment that Google runs away from all its competing Search Engines by getting users to do the most important thing in search...identify context and relevance?