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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. "

2 of 395 comments (clear)

  1. The difference is by AnonDotOrg · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    That Yahoo! tends to find a way of indexing identical pages on a site. While Google seems to just index the unique and significant ones.

  2. OMFG LOL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The problem isn't Linux or the package manager. The problem is YOU! The kernel's freakin idiot detector has detected YOUR presence and is there by throwing up roadblocks in order to prevent an idiot like YOU from using Linux.

    IT"S NOT A BUG, IT'S A FEATURE!!! LOL!!!