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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. "

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  1. Re:Yahoo returns dupes... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yahoo returns a lot of dupes.

    If that's the case, then why is Google the darling of slashdot? ;)