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. Dinged For Doorway Spam - BMW Germany is found to...
End Of Size Wars? However, dropping the home page count is a positive move that I think helps defuse the entire size wars situation. Google Says Most Comprehensive But Drops Home Page Count - Today, Google is dropping from its home page the famous...
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.
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.
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. 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. The link command tells you nothing about the size of the index. Start here to understand the minefield of search index sizes. So, if you start with this, all things being equal, if the google index is much larger...
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 Seems like that was an expansion of content to the...
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. For a rundown on how much of a web page each major search engine officially says it indexes, see...
Please see the Search Engine Size Wars V Erupts article for the most recent current size figures based on unaudited, self-reported information from each search engine (for audited figures, see the Search Engine Showdown web site listed below...
As Chris blogged, Google has raised the stakes in the search engine size wars by claiming an index of 8 billion pages. I love the idea of not getting into the size wars again, which are never that productive.
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. It's good for niche web search and also for searching intranets and university campus when you have ten servers and you want to index them all.
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...
