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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. Accurate results? by bigwavejas · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Google sometimes returns some pretty interesting/ entertaining results.

    Try searching for the word, "failure" in Google and check the results.

    This brings into question *accurate* results. In this case it appears that's left to interpretation.

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  2. More please! by 2008 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is a great article! I wish there were more like it on slashdot. It's scientific instead of an opinion piece, it has references, it's repeatable. It's also short and very readable, unlike a lot of science papers.

    OK, it is yet another Google piece, but it's not "some junior analyst predicts Google will buy Apple and release OSX86box 720".

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  3. Proper name samples by jkauzlar · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Let's try a few samples of proper names:

    Search: Valerie Plame
    Google: 908,000
    Yahoo: 2,580,000

    Search: "Boulder, Colorado"
    Google: 1,600,000
    Yahoo: 5,880,000

    Search: "Linus Torvalds"
    Google: 2,560,000
    Yahoo: 5,870,000

    I assume it goes on like this. Of course these exceed the 1000 maximum hit limit given in the study.