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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. I can believe it by ranson · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I see robots from yahoo and inktomi search (owned by Yahoo) hitting my web servers several times daily, as opposed to weekly (or even more sparse) hits from google.

  2. Quality, not quantity by qw0ntum · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Lots of indexed docs is nice, but it doesn't mean much if the indexed stuff isn't meaningful.

    I wonder how many of those indexed images are spacers and things, or how many of those documents are just copies/meaningless information.

    But enough being a naysayer. More documents does mean that Yahoo! is more likely to have found the document I'm looking for, and that amount of searched stuff will definitely help for those more obsucre searches.

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  3. Google missing ~half the web by Thoe · · Score: 0, Redundant

    So does this mean that all of my very valuable searches for "boobies" have been missing half of the results I so desperately desire? I feel like I have wasted my life away now that I know I've only seen half the boobies I should have, or maybe there's another reason I feel I've wasted my life, hopefully I'll figure that out right after I finish looking at these beautiful...

  4. Johnny, it's not how big it is.. by bronney · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It's how you use it.

    I'd be lmao if I see msn in the news tomorrow with 30 bil data.