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NCSA Compares Google and Yahoo Index Numbers

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the searching-for-truth dept.

chrisd (former Slashdot editor and now Google employee) writes "Recently, Yahoo claimed an increase of index size to "over 20 billion items", compared to Google's 8.16 billion pages. Now, researchers at NCSA have done their own, independent, comparison of the two engines. "

3 of 395 comments (clear)

  1. Good article by eth00 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The researchers in this article took as close to a scientific method as one can get for something like this. This just tells us exactly what has been know for away, yahoo just plain sucks at giving good results.

  2. Teoma is better than google or yahoo by JeffSh · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Teoma is better than google or yahoo, so i think the point is moot.

    http://www.teoma.com/

  3. Re:Accurate results? by theapodan · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    A Bush supporter?

    More like THE Bush supporter, as bad as polls and general consensus are against him.

    Mod me flamebait if you must, but just read the paper to find that I'm becoming more and more truthful.