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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def get_total_result_count(self):
 """Returns the total count of all the results."""


        doc = self._request(self._ws_prefix + ".search", True)

        return _extract(doc, "totalResults")