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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. Concede by DrugCheese · · Score: 0, Redundant

    In fact, in the 10,012 test cases we ran, only in 3% of the cases (307) did Yahoo! return more results. In 96.6% of the cases (9,676) Google returned more results.

    I don't understand what would make someone want to compete against Google anymore. Sure if you're got technology in place like yahoo keep it going but still ...

    Google is synonymous with searching the internet.

    Google is a verb

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    *DrugCheese rants*
  2. Re:Yahoo pants down, egg on face, no WMD either. by telecsan · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Exactly. I wouldn't judge the effectiveness of a search engine by the number of results returned for 2 randomly chosen dictionary words, let alone only those pairs which returned 1000 results.

    Besides, who ever said more results were better? I mean, yeah, your car can have 400HP, but that doesn't change the fact that there are still stoplights every 50 ft. Give me a car with a remote to change the light to green, and now we're talking! They should focus on making the search results better, not larger.