Google Misleading: The Size Of The Web And The Size Of Their Index Are Very Different

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/25/googles-misleading-blog-post-on-the-size-of-the-web/

by nickb • 18 years ago

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wave• 18 years ago

That may be true today [Google having the most comprehensive index of any search engine], but it probably won’t be true next week (check back here then)

Is there another search engine coming to the market that is even better than Google?

aneesh2• 18 years ago

It's pretty close to impossible for a newcomer to suddenly index more of the web than Google. It's gotta be Yahoo or Live. The question is which one? And how'd they do it?

One of the TC commenters suggested that it's due to MSFT indexing facebook ...

bdotdub• 18 years ago

Microsoft just announced their new search engine ... maybe that?

anaulin• 18 years ago

Why are we assuming that size of index => better search experience?

tlrobinson• 18 years ago

I thought this was a given. I never assumed that "size of web" == "size of our index".

Google Misleading: The Size Of The Web And The Size Of Their Index Are Very Different

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