Other sites submit the videos, but forget to index the pages. Will you index both my video permalink pages and the videos themselves? However, many companies are ignoring video SEO altogether, only submitting the pages on which videos reside and...
They're claiming bragging rights for search index size: 120 billion Web pages. While Patterson says that's 3X the size of Google's index, most people acknowledge that size doesn't matter. As Google's official blog notes, many pages not indexed...
Report: Click Fraud Up to 15.8% Last QuarterAccording to the latest Click Fraud Index report from Click Forensics, the overall industry average pay-per-click fraud rate rose to 15.8 percent for the second quarter of 2007.
Yesterday, I came across the oddest ones ever, when doing some typical searches to gauge the size of the index. The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) reports on the "bundle of clicks" search distribution packages that all the major...
In theory, that should show the size of the Google index, all the pages it has. Yesterday, I came across the oddest ones ever, when doing some typical searches to gauge the size of the index. It was only last September that this type index...
While Google doesn't report the total number of pages it indexes any longer, it wasn't that long ago when 5 billion pages would have been over half the reported size, as John noted: billion pages is the entire size of the Google index just a...
Anna Patterson, who developed one of the largest search engines ever created while at the Internet Archives, and author of the ACM Queue article Why Writing Your Own Search Engine is Hard, is the inventor listed on this patent application, which...
Vista Size Controversy: The Google-Yahoo spat over index size in 2005 was only the latest in long standing issues over page counts. Perhaps an end to the size wars, as Google finally drops the index count off its home page.
It features an article by Karen Schneider, the director of the Librarians' Internet Index, who focuses on the some of the critical information judgments needed in determining the trustworthiness of a site and the info that it contains.MORE”
She also asks, "How long do you think it will be before some journalist does some math and writes that Google's index has 60 billion documents? Google to take down front-page boast about index size from the Associated
In total, the Google actual Google index size was above 8 billion -- maybe as high as 9-11 billion pages and possibly a bit more. Today, Google is dropping from its home page the famous count of pages in its index while simultaneously claiming it...
Further to my previous post on the Google index update/size increase, there appears to be a new way to count all the pages within Google. So at least, Google should have about 1.5 billion pages in its index more than it currently claims.
It's that Google appears to have gained more pages in its index. Yesterday, I wrote about signs that the Google index size has increased despite the fact that the home page number, as usual, remains firmly stuck around 8 billion.
Until recently, a query for "the" was bringing back around 3 billion or 5 billion matches (I can't recall off hand, but it was well below the 8 billion pages claimed in the Google index). I wrote earlier that there were signs that Google was...
Danny's blog post from last November (when Google issued it's 8.0 number only hours before MSN said their index was indexing about 5 billion pages) also discusses this topic. Last week, prior to the Yahoo index size announcement, we were notified...
Search Engine Size Wars & Google's Supplemental Results covers more on deconstructing index size claims from 2003. Time to play on the beach, head out on vacation and if you're a search engine, announce to the world that you've got the largest index.
Time to play on the beach, head out on vacation and if you're a search engine, announce to the world that you've got the largest index. Yes, having a large index is generally good. Yes, having a fresh index is desirable.
He writes, "Would I be surprised if Google announced shortly that its index was magically up to, oh, 22 billion or so? Does each company have a cutoff for the amount of content on a page or in a document they crawl and index?
Yahoo said its index, boosted by a recent upgrade, covers 20.5 billion online "objects," comprised of about 19 billion documents and 1.5 billion images. The number is a combination of total web pages and total images.
While the front page of Google advertises they are currently indexing over 8 billion pages, it is very difficult to find ways to support that claim via the link feature they are offering: this can be seen as confirmation that Google does not tell...
