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ConfuZed Donating Member (856 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 09:42 PM
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Yahoo passes Google in search index capacity
When most people think of Web search, they think of Google. But Yahoo said Monday that it has completed a vast expansion of its search engine index and now encompasses almost double that of its main competitor.

Yahoo's Tim Mayer said Monday on the company's Search Blog that it now indexes more than 20 billion documents and images. That's almost twice the 11.3 billion Google publicly says it currently spans.

Of the 20 billion elements in Yahoo's database, 19 billion are documents, 1.5 billion images and more than 50 million audio and video files, the company said.

Until now, Yahoo didn't normally talk publicly about the size of its search index, but according to the Associated Press, company observers had pegged the number at no higher than 8 billion documents.


http://news.com.com/2061-10803_3-5824161.html?part=rss&tag=5824161&subj=news
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 09:48 PM
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1. Yahooing just doesn't sound right.
Googling sounds better.
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ck4829 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 09:50 PM
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2. Yeah, that sounds like a noise that you make if you are...
coughing up something.
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 10:19 PM
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5. Yeah, something like a cowboy preznit.
Yahoo :puke:
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ConfuZed Donating Member (856 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 09:56 PM
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3. I remeber during the election alot of DU'ers had problems with Google
I just can't remember the reasons.
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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-08-05 10:10 PM
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4. That's dandy
But utility of the results is my prime measure of a search engine. I switched to Google in 1998 because its ability to return useful links from its small index was already like magical voodoo compared to others. Altavista had by far the largest database and no matter how specific and arcane the search, it would barf half the net into your lap. Input "bituminous coal" and you'd get "displaying 1-20 of 3,778,231 documents" -- with half of everything beyond the first page being porn sites.
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