Perhaps an end to the size wars, as Google finally drops the index count off its home page. Wars: Battle Of The Search Superpowers: Everyone's been arming themselves to take on Google. Size Wars? Embroiled In Scientology Debate: Pulling pages the...
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.
The latest size wars broke out last month, when Yahoo said on its blog that it now provided access to over 19 billion web documents. However, dropping the home page count is a positive move that I think helps defuse the entire size wars situation.
Search Engine Size Wars & Google's Supplemental Results covers more on deconstructing index size claims from 2003. Search Engine Size Wars V Erupts covers the self-reported figures and battle we had between Google and MSN last November, along with...
Search Engine Size Wars V Erupts covers the self-reported figures and battle we had between Google and Search Engine Size Wars who's biggest" in August 2003. This is Search Engine Size Wars VI, by my count.
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. Yahoo's new service will differ from Google in that it will add human editorial to the selection of ads for content pages. Like Google's service, Yahoo's self-serve product will...
Looks like we might have a search engine total size wars beginning. The number is a combination of total web pages and total images. By comparison, Google said it tracks 11.3 billion objects. Yahoo will have "the largest" bragging rights until (I...
Search Engine Size Wars V Erupts. 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...
More on this in my past article, Search Engine Size Wars V Erupts. Search Engine Size Wars V Erupts from last November and some historic articles on the Google has claimed to have the biggest search index, with 8.1 billion pages.
Search Engine Size Wars real" index is about 5 billion pages. I'd translate that into saying that the main index is 5 billion pages -- near the number that Google long used to report on its home page.
Google Fires New Salvo in Search Engine Size Wars SearchDay, Dec.http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/2158371 Search Engine Size Wars Google Upgrades Appliance SearchDay, June 17, 2002 http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article...
As Chris blogged, Google has raised the stakes in the search engine size wars by claiming an index of 8 billion pages. I'll leave you with a reference to my past article, Search Engine Size Wars & Google's Supplemental
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. Google now claims that it is now "Searching 8,058,044,651 web pages.
Search Engine Size Wars how the Google Toolbar may only estimate PageRank and revisits the importance of inbound, outbound and internal linkage. Another milestone in the search engine size wars was hit when Google went live with a full-text index...
The Search Engine Wars NPR, April 12-16, 2004 Search Wars: Battle Of The Search Superpowers SearchDay, April 29, 2004 We've long had competition in search, so why are we hearing so much about the search wars now?
It's Microsoft's first real weapon of its own in the ongoing search wars. Microsoft says the new search engine has about 1 billion pages indexed, with plans to increase this size over time. However, they said the size reference was only a...
It's Microsoft's first real weapon of its own in the ongoing search wars. Microsoft says the new search engine has about 1 billion pages indexed, with plans to increase this size over time. For searchers, this means that for some relatively obscure...
The Search Engine Wars NPR, April 12-16, 2004 http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2004/apr/google/ Because the few left in the wake of the portal wars are embarking on a new quest to secure their destinies on the search front.
Search Engine Size Wars & Google's Supplemental Results SearchDay, Sept.http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3071371 The search engine size wars have erupted again to dispute this -- and the new Google supplemental index is...
