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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. Re:What a surprise by Eric604 · · Score: 0, Troll
    OK, mod me flamebait now.

    I'll take some of the heat off you. Let's burn some karma. Here we go. MODERATORS ARE STUPID FUCKERS.

  2. Re:Accurate results? by AnUnnamedSource · · Score: 0, Troll

    Looks pretty accurate to me. Type in "failure"--get a picture of George W. Bush. How much more accurate do you want?

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  3. Re:Accurate results? by DroopyStonx · · Score: 0, Troll

    But maybe that's the thing... Google is intelligent.

    It just KNOWS.

    I mean, we know by looking at a picture that a car is a certain color without the text "blue truck" being on a page - why couldn't google do the same?

    Maybe google is god.

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