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September 30, 2005
News! Google Is Now The Number One Internet Index
On 09 28 2005 Google said it expanded its index of the Internet to make it three times larger than any other search engine. But in the search engine wars, relevancy is the real judge on the usefulness of a search index not the size of an index.
Google has been involved in a hotly contested debate with rival Yahoo over which search engine has the biggest search index of web pages.
Yahoo and Google previously claimed to have indexed 19.2bn and 8bn web pages respectively. Google's home page previously claimed that although it had 8bn indexed web pages it was dropping references to the number of web pages and was focusing on the relevance of results found.
Indeed, It is search relevancy that has contributed to Google being the most popular search engine among Internet users.
In a Google blog note that marked the anniversary of Google's inception in 1988, Anna Patterson, a software engineer, said the birthday was being celebrated with an expanded search index 1,000 times the size of the original index created when Larry page was at Stanford university.
The fact that Google has expanded its search index to become the biggest index is not so important; the ultimate judge is a search engine user who cares more about search relevancy than the size of an index.
David Davis
Small Business Resource
Posted by David at September 30, 2005 9:17 AM
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