However, dropping the home page count is a positive move that I think helps defuse the entire size wars situation. End Of Size Wars? The lawsuit claims that Yahoo is trying to steal trade secrets.MORE”
Claims To Be Most Comprehensive - But Helps Defuse Size Wars By Dropping Home Today's search podcast covers Google's claim to be most comprehensive but dropping index size as proof of that, plus Google's second birthday this month,
New Index Size, Shifts Focus from Counting from John Battelle covers how he also sees the index wars as over "at least in terms of raw counting" and how it shifts the debate "back to relevance, where honestly, it really belongs.
Now Biggest, Most Comprehensive - But Size Wars Defused By Dropped Home Page Count covers the latest chapter in the dispute over search engine size that started with last month's claim by Yahoo to have outdistanced Google in index size.
Aside from the relevancy quashing, the story also looks at how Microsoft doesn't seem to be gaining in the search wars despite the technological investment in build its own search engine and backing it with marketing money.
Search Engine Size Wars & Google's Supplemental Results covers more on deconstructing index size claims from 2003. Search Engine Size Wars & Google's Supplemental Results, Search Engine Watch, Sept. This is Search Engine Size Wars VI, by my count.
Search Engine Size Wars who's biggest" in August 2003. This is Search Engine Size Wars VI, by my count. Search Engine Size Wars V Erupts covers the self-reported figures and battle we had between Google and
For Gary, the search industy watcher, it's interesting to see another round of database size wars up and running but it's still not a big deal in the searching sense. What Total Size Wars 2005 illustrates that pr/bragging rights and mindshare are...
Looks like we might have a search engine total size wars beginning. Michael Liedtke from the AP reports that Yahoo is announcing a total size count. According to this Reuters story, Google sued over claims of excess advertising fees, "Google Inc.is...
Search Engine Size Wars V Erupts. is, if claims on the size of indexes are correct (remember we're all assuming the claims are correct.no one ever challenged that assumption until now) is, if claims on the size of indexes are correct (remember we...
But that was far from the only statistical trend these analysts attempted to shed light on.comScore Networks data, at least for the US market, has tended to portray the search wars as a fairly close contest.
Search Engine Size Wars Google Upgrades Appliance SearchDay, June 17, 2002 http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/2160141 Google Fires New Salvo in Search Engine Size Wars SearchDay, Dec.http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article...
Traditionally these volleys in the search engine size wars have meant little, but have been picked up by the media because they are tangible and easy to report. On the eve of Microsoft's long anticipated launch of MSN Search, Google is reporting on...
That's what triggered the last change, as explained more here in my article from last year: Search Engine Size Wars & Google's Supplemental Results. My impression is that Google updates that periodically by hand, not automatically -- and in...
Search Wars: Battle Of The Search Superpowers SearchDay, April 29, 2004 http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3347181 We've long had competition in search, so why are we hearing so much about the search wars now?
The search engine size wars have erupted again to dispute this -- and the new Google supplemental index is complicating matters. Search Engine Size Wars & Google's Supplemental Results SearchDay, Sept.http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article...
I especially hate when the periodic size wars erupt because examining the latest claims takes time away from other more important things to write about. Instead, I'm filled with Andrew Goodman-style rage (and that's a compliment to Andrew) that the...
I especially hate when the periodic size wars erupt because examining the latest claims takes time away from other more important things to write about. Instead, I'm filled with Andrew Goodman-style rage (and that's a compliment to Andrew) that the...
Search Engine Watch News + SES Dates For 2004 Set + Search Engine Size Wars IV T-Online claims a change-of-control clause lets it break the contract a year earlier than planned. Some in the search engine industry, when I've mentioned the report to...
Overture and Google have fired new salvos in the search engine size wars, expanding their databases of searchable web pages by millions of pages. Although the search engine size wars have been going on since the early days of web search, the...
