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Yahoo Passes Google in Total Items Searched
tonyquan writes "Yahoo announced today that its search engine passed Google's for overall capacity, with 20 billion documents and images indexed versus 11.3 billion for Google. Observers had previously pegged Yahoo's index at just 8 billion items. The growth is due to a recent expansion effort. More info can be found on the Yahoo! Search blog and at CNet."
Are those 20 billion documents, the actual SPAMs I received at my yahoo mail account since 1994?
It's not the size of your index, it's the results you get with it.
Right?
RIGHT?!?
-Ted
-=-=- Quantum physics - the dreams stuff are made of.
"Of course, now if you still doubt, you're welcome to count all 11.5bn results and make sure none of them are dupes :-)"
Thats easy to do, just submit all 11.5bn pages as stories on slashdot and the dups will automatically appear on the front page!
had to do it, sorry..
Maybe the editors need to check on something, or we all ought to count 11.3 billion as the "new 42".
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
The increase can be explained by Yahoo adding Slashdot dupes to their index.
Results 1 - 10 of about 3,930 for "In Soviet Russia" slashdot.org
from Yahoo!:
Results 1 - 10 of about 11,300 for "In Soviet Russia" slashdot.org - 0.38 sec.
Looks convincing to me, comrades!
but also have some areas to catch up on
Like how to park?
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In other news, some guy wrote a Slashdot post and linked to his own blog. Woah, shocker. 9_9
How do you figure? Do you find it harder to find restaurants in large cities?
Only if most of those restaurants in large cities give you a menu that only lists Viagra as something you can order.
This is not a dream, not a dream...we are transmitting from the year 1-9-9-9.
Amazing! Yahoo beats Google at something and yet the implication is that Google is doing something right where Yahoo isn't.
Can Google do any wrong??? (Hint: yes! One example is google groups. By default no quoting is done in a followup so you get these idiots on usenet asking questions with NO CONTEXT.)
That is funny, I just read it as "why not?"
A blog about stuff.
Whoosh yourself. I got it. You didn't get that I was extending your joke to include a jab at the guys who create the popups. You are not as smart as you think you are, Sonny.
Hic iacet Arthurus, rex quondam rexque futurus.
It's Google updating their public database today from their secret cache of pages that nobody knows about except for me. THERE'S A SECOND INTERNE****NO CARRIER----
No rest for the livid.
The next time I'm just dying to search for info on Kyzyl, I'll know that Google is the better choice for that particular search. Thanks for your informative post!
Just then, a faint voice could be heard comming from Yahoo's headquarters...
"I'm not dead yet..."
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