Google to Triple Index Size
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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.
Source: ReutersBut 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.
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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
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!
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.
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...
but perhaps any decade of the century? or....
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