Google to Triple Index Size

Rob Updegrove 27 Sep, 2005 at 8:36am ET Article published in Tech

Google has announced that it will triple the number of pages that it can search, in an effort to combat Yahoo’s claims of being the broadest search engine.

But Google also said it would no longer publicize the number of Web pages available from any search — calling a halt to what analysts say has become an increasingly meaningless size competition.

Instead of focusing on the millions of page results that broad-based searches can generate, Google is asking readers to compare searches done on Google and Yahoo for the relevance of search results to the individual user.

“We believe that we have an index that is three times larger (without counting duplicate pages)”, Marissa Mayer, Google’s director of consumer Web products and product manager for Google.com, said in a phone interview.

Source: Reuters

Comments

27 Sep 2005 ~ 11:20am MiracleManS I think Yahoo! might be picking on the wrong people.
28 Sep 2005 ~ 12:24am djstubbs Yahoo might want to check on Googles share price.
28 Sep 2005 ~ 1:01am Thrax Yahoo sucks.
28 Sep 2005 ~ 5:55pm djshowdown how many ppl have you ever come accross who DONT use google?

i mean when ppl refer to searching for stuff, 9 times out of 10 ppl will refer to it as 'googling'

they are the search engine

yahoo is crap, too cluttered
28 Sep 2005 ~ 6:08pm saintuk not used yahoo fo years!
28 Sep 2005 ~ 6:52pm primesuspect There are literally millions of people who use Yahoo. You guys always lose sight of the fact that you are mostly advanced computer and internet users, but you are also only a small percentage of the total number of internet users out there.

When SBC merged with Yahoo a few years back, and they started rolling out home DSL service (Yahoo! DSL), every single one of those customers starts with Yahoo as their portal. A significant portion of them never change. I have tons of customers that use Yahoo.

I run a website that has grown from 0 users to ~550 members in a year. The number one way people find my site is through yahoo search.

Short-Media also has a ton of people coming here from yahoo....

Jeez, you guys are so elitist sometimes!
28 Sep 2005 ~ 8:05pm Jengo i agree with Prime, although a lot of us Like using google cause it seems easier for us, a lot of people find google plain.

Look at Japan for instance. Yahoo is HUGE in japan, forget ebay, its all about Yahoo Auctions in japan.

We need to look further then a few friends and a few guys at a web forum

Yahoo can buy out google any day of the year.

But for me? I use Yahoo. Why? Cause it has a gazillion information at yahoo.com plus, from my own personal tests Yahoos search engine comes out either on top or right on with google.

Yahoo is no joke guys. They mean buisness.
28 Sep 2005 ~ 9:47pm djstubbs Google is the premiere search engine.
29 Sep 2005 ~ 8:59am GHoosdum

Jengo wrote:

Yahoo can buy out google any day of the year.

Not a chance. Yahoo has $800K cash on hand, only $4M in total short-term assets. It would take them a LOOOONG time to pull up the financing to buy up 51% of Google's shares, especially if they had to pay a premium over the $306 share price that GOOG is currently trading at (about 9x YHOO share price, GOOG has 279 million shares outstanding). Not to mention the market share concerns that would arise if two of the largest internet companies merged...

Any day of the year?

Just for kicks, I looked up all this info on Yahoo! Finance...
29 Sep 2005 ~ 3:25pm Jengo okay okay.... so maybe not any day of the year...

but perhaps any decade of the century? or....

:bawling:
29 Sep 2005 ~ 5:14pm airbornflght google is going to be the next microsoft i think. Its a couple of 30 something guys spearheading this. They have the money to do what they want and they are going to. I remember when google was nothing. Now look at it. The have a system for a nice clean interface and relevant results, and it works.
29 Sep 2005 ~ 5:39pm primesuspect Nobody is disputing that google is relevant or awesome or on their way to becoming a juggernaut. I'm simply stating that yahoo is no joke.
29 Sep 2005 ~ 5:49pm Nightwolf I use yahoo lol! just cause its my homepage.