Perhaps an end to the size wars, as Google finally drops the index count off its home page. Size Wars? Wars: Battle Of The Search Superpowers: Everyone's been arming themselves to take on Google. Vista Size Controversy: The Google-Yahoo spat over...
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.
However, dropping the home page count is a positive move that I think helps defuse the entire size wars situation. Bigger no longer meant better, irregardless of the many size wars that continued to erupt.
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. This is Search Engine Size Wars VI, by my count.
Search Engine Size Wars V Erupts. I agree there are many factors in terms of rankings however, wouldn't a page in an index of 100 pages have more of a chance (1/10) or appearing in the first 10 results (ie on the first page) than a page in an...
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 Seems like that was an expansion of content to the...
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...
Google envy foments search wars. They've done it primarily with size (of index), speed (lots of hardware intelligently deployed), simple interface, eliminating really bad documents, good ranking of the better documents, and staying focused.
As a result, Google should quickly gain new desktop search converts in this latest battleground of the search engine wars -- and on territory that some had assumed Microsoft would win on. Once the index is built, it is continually updated with...
As a result, Google should quickly gain new desktop search converts in this latest battleground of the search engine wars -- and on territory that some had assumed Microsoft would win on. Once the index is built, it is continually updated with...
Another milestone in the search engine size wars was hit when Google went live with a full-text index of 560 million URLs in June, making it the largest search engine on the web. Search Engine Size Wars how the Google Toolbar may only estimate...
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? Because the few left in the wake of the portal wars are embarking on a new quest...
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...
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...
And so if the latest size wars should continue, look beyond the numbers listed at the bottom of the various search engine home pages consider instead the key question. I especially hate when the periodic size wars erupt because examining the latest...
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. Google gets top ratings for consumer satisfaction in the search...
For example, a search for "star wars" brings back the Prisma terms "Characters," "Force," and "Galaxy. Here AltaVista has returned "George Lucas," "Leia," "Lucasarts," "Luke," "Movie," "Obi-wan," "Phantom Menace," "Return Of The Jedi," and "Star...
