p2pnet.net News:- Microsoft is going after Google with its MSN Search, but Google isn’t about to cave in.

“You probably never notice the large number that appears in tiny type at the bottom of the Google home page, but I do,” says the Google blog. “It’s a measure of how many pages we have in our index and gives an indication of how broadly we search to find the information you’re looking for.

“Today that number nearly doubled to more than 8 billion pages.

“That made me smile.”

The guy with the grin was Bill Coughran, vp, engineering.

He goes on, “These are not just copies of the same pages, but truly diverse results that give more information. The same is true for obscure topics, where you’re now significantly more likely to find relevant and diverse information about the subjects. You may also notice that the result counts for broader queries (with thousands or millions of results) have gone up substantially.”

Not at all incidentally, Google is introducing Pop3 support for Gmail users so they can download email from Gmail servers to email applications, and WiFi users with Pop3-compliant email clients will also be able to download to their PDAs or mobiles.

“Google is also working on adding antivirus scanning to the web mail service, possibly by licensing an existing technology, and developing an HTML interface to make Gmail compatible with browsers that don’t support JavaScript,” says Computer Weekly.

“Currently, only JavaScript-enabled browsers can access Gmail.”

Stay tuned.

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See:-
going after Google – New MSN Search – down, p2pnet, November 11, 2004
smile – Google’s index nearly doubles, Google Blog, November 10, 2004
Pop3 support – Gmail starts to download messages, Computer Weekly, Novcember 11, 2004

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