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Yahoo Passes Google in Total Items Searched

Posted by timothy on from the it-depends-what-you're-looking-for dept.

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."

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  1. 20 billion documents, I wonder... by baylanger · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are those 20 billion documents, the actual SPAMs I received at my yahoo mail account since 1994?

  2. Re:Great... by bedroll · · Score: 5, Funny
    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=crap&btnG=Goo gle+Search

    had to do it, sorry..

  3. Big Increase - Simple Explanation by ndansmith · · Score: 5, Funny

    The increase can be explained by Yahoo adding Slashdot dupes to their index.

  4. Re:Yahoo! playing Tortoise to Google's Hare by cybersaga · · Score: 4, Funny

    but also have some areas to catch up on

    Like how to park?

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  5. Re:Google needs to become mature like Yahoo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    In other news, some guy wrote a Slashdot post and linked to his own blog. Woah, shocker. 9_9

  6. Re:fantastic by HD+Webdev · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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