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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. Great by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Now all Yahoo has to do is create a real search engine that can actually spew out relevant results amongst those 20 billion entries...

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  2. Great... by Lewisham · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...now it'll be even harder to find anything on Yahoo! Google keeps and holds its users because searches *work*. When I search for something, Google has a very high chance of giving me what I want in 4 pages or so. Yahoo! isn't as good at getting me the information I want. The problem might even be made *worse* with all these pages. Yahoo! has never said, AFAIK, how it ranks pages, but Google does it better. With this wealth of data, the ranking system is going to be under much more scrutiny at picking the right pages.

  3. More important by Chairboy · · Score: 5, Insightful
    A newsflash that's more important to me is how, years ago, Google passed Yahoo's abillity to display relevant results.

    Why isn't programmer efficiency measured in KLOCs? Because quality is more important than quantity when used as the only metric.

  4. Quantity versus quality by IamGarageGuy+2 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't believe that volume of pages is really a relevant metric to be used in the case of search results. With an infinite number of pages the real metric comes down to relevance.

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  5. Re:My own - albeit anecdotal - experience... by coflow · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I do think this is interesting to note, but I have to ask you as a business man, what matters more to you, the quality of the search or the number of people using the search engine. From anecdotal evidence, I can tell you that I maybe know of 3 or 4 people who use yahoo to search, and pretty much everybody else uses google or has firefox search toolbar set to google.

    I can make a better hamburger than McDonald's can, but you're probably better off investing in them than you are in me.

  6. Re:fantastic by xs650 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If over 1/2 the restaurants in big cities were fake restaurants built to look like the restaurant you were looking for, yes it would be.