Google Questions Yahoo's Claim That Its Search Index Is Bigger August 15, 2005 17:37 EDT -- Google Inc. questioned a claim by rival Yahoo! Inc. that Yahoo had substantially increased the sweep of its search engine to 19.2 billion Web pages, a figure that would top Google's reported 8.2 billion pages.
Would really like to read more on the story... Actually what is more important is you get relevant search results and websites that you are looking for, on the search engine - how big their index is is less important. Right?
But its not how big you have it , its how you use it that counts! My index is bigger that your's!!! I wonder what msn index is
This maybe extra pages that have Yahoo! are really usefull? Does the size means better? I don't think so.
I wonder if the "extra pages" in yahoo are just spam scraper pages, amazon affiliate pages or whatever. I wonder how many pages of unique content are out there. Inflating the # of pages is easy, and meaningless.
This really isn't that difficult when the pages indexed are mostly garbage, spam and scaper sites. This ultimatley leads to garbage serps. Anything below the first 3 found in serps are, for the most part, garbage.
I have been saying this on this forum for the last month that Yahoo was trying to index more pages than google to target business for spending advertising dollars with yahoo instead of google. Yahoo seems to believe that if their index is larger that serveral of googles big adsense spenders will come over to them to spend their company dollars. I have seen Yahoo add sites back in to their index that they ban less than a year ago for cloaking as google did, yet yahoo has added all those sites back to increase its index. For city plus real estate that I have sites in yahoo has gone from before these updates 6 to 7 million pages indexed to 16 million and now to almost 40 million in less than 6 weeks.
Yahoo index may be bigger then google but most of the pages on there search are spame, there are many spame pages in google as well but not that much as yahoo. i report few sites too many times to google but they are still there on top. would be good if they didnt go for bigger index but to improve and remove spam as much as they can.
Yahoo probably reckons www.domain.com/list.php?sort=asc as different from www.domain.com/list.php?sort=desc whereas Google is smarter than that. If I were them I'd create a mega mirror of the web and stick Co-op on it. Hope they read the FAQ first though.
Hilarious! Seriously though, Im on the fence on this one. From personal search experience I would say Yahoo and Google both have a lot of spam still floating around the serps. Different markets have better results in each search engine. This is why I jump back and forth between them depending on what I am looking for. Not sure if all the extra pages is doing any good. May be just a publicity move no?
The experienced Internet user might question the quality of the Yahoo! index - Joe User who just surfs the web and reads news eventually and likes to look at shopping and p0rn sites will eventually be 'impressed' and uses Yahoo and no longer Google. That could mean a lot more business for Yahoo. Chris
It's not how big your index is, it's how many people use it. And for that, Google remains king of the hill.
The way they change things so quickly its difficult to calculate. Best bet is to stick with both. Yahoo is older of course.