AllTheWeb Claims Bigger Index Than Google

An anonymous readers writes: "Hoping to attract more mass appeal for an online search engine with a cult following, Norwegian search engine AlltheWeb on Monday declared that it indexes more Internet information than longtime pacesetter Google. Boston.com has the story." Of course, pages indexed is not the only measure of a search engine and probably isn't even the most important.

Comments

Simplicity not quantity.

[MarvinMouse]

Well, I think this might finally answer the question I have been wondering about my love of google for a long time.

Do I love google because it's so simple and easy to use with very quick download times and simple graphic interfaces, and good search algorithms that more often then not give me the sites that I am looking for in one page.

or Do I love google because it has a ton of useful sites logged in its database including all copies, half sites, under construction sites, etc.?

I am willing to say that's it's likely the first one, and I think that it might be that for most other people.

But either way, it'll be neat to see what AllTheWeb.com does well.

good not to have google monoculture

[kisrael]

Well, I was pretty happy with the results of a search on my name...happier than with Google in that once case, though that's but a single tiny datapoint.

In any case, it would be terrific to have a viable alternative to Google...despite Google's almost unnerving ability to do *so* many things Right, it is good to have somewhere to turn just in case something went wrong there. Not having a monoculture (which is what we're almost on the verge of with Google) is generally a good thing.