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Google Misleading: The Size Of The Web And The Size Of Their Index Are Very Different (techcrunch.com)
6 points by nickb on July 25, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments


I thought this was a given. I never assumed that "size of web" == "size of our index".


That may be true today [Google having the most comprehensive index of any search engine], but it probably won’t be true next week (check back here then)

Is there another search engine coming to the market that is even better than Google?


It's pretty close to impossible for a newcomer to suddenly index more of the web than Google. It's gotta be Yahoo or Live. The question is which one? And how'd they do it?

One of the TC commenters suggested that it's due to MSFT indexing facebook ...


Microsoft just announced their new search engine ... maybe that?


cuill?


I heard that rumor too. If so, I'm impressed.


Why are we assuming that size of index => better search experience?




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