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? Vista Size Controversy: The Google-Yahoo spat over...
However, dropping the home page count is a positive move that I think helps defuse the entire size wars situation. End Of Size Wars? Google Says Most Comprehensive But Drops Home Page Count - Today, Google is dropping from its home page the famous...
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.
However, dropping the home page count is a positive move that I think helps defuse the entire size wars situation. Why have the size wars persisted? Bigger no longer meant better, irregardless of the many size wars that continued to erupt.
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.
I Dare Google & Yahoo To Report On Relevancy looks at why in my opinion, the current dispute over index size between Google and Yahoo is yet another waste of time that avoids focusing on the figure everyone really wants, a relevancy figure.
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. Search Engine Size Wars V Erupts covers the self...
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 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.
Search Engine Size Wars V Erupts. Let's say Google really does only index say half the pages that Yahoo does. So, if you start with this, all things being equal, if the google index is much larger then chances for a blog to appear on the front are...
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. We know that Google has at least two indexes is uses for web searches -- the "regular" one and a "supplemental" index (see A possible scenario is that the real index used by Google is...
Engine Size Wars V Erupts. Fair to say they should all should index web pages up to their full amounts or at least much higher than is currently done. Tara over at ResearchBuzz notes that Google seems to have lifted the 101K limit on indexing HTML...
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. On the eve of Microsoft's long anticipated launch of MSN Search, Google is reporting on...
As moderator Chris Sherman commented, this must have been the start of the "size wars" at search engines. And the same applies to Google, which manages to copy a multi-terabyte index around the world on a regular basis.
