Google to Triple Index Size

GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
edited September 2005 in Science & 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

  • MiracleManSMiracleManS Chambersburg, PA Icrontian
    edited September 2005
    I think Yahoo! might be picking on the wrong people.
  • edited September 2005
    Yahoo might want to check on Googles share price. ;D
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2005
    Yahoo sucks.
  • djshowdowndjshowdown London
    edited September 2005
    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
  • edited September 2005
    not used yahoo fo years!
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited September 2005
    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! :rolleyes:
  • JengoJengo Pasco, WA | USA
    edited September 2005
    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.
  • edited September 2005
    Google is the premiere search engine.
  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited September 2005
    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? :scratch:

    Just for kicks, I looked up all this info on Yahoo! Finance... ;D
  • JengoJengo Pasco, WA | USA
    edited September 2005
    okay okay.... so maybe not any day of the year...

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

    :bawling:
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2005
    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.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited September 2005
    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.
  • NightwolfNightwolf Afghanistan Member
    edited September 2005
    I use yahoo lol! just cause its my homepage.
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