Yahoo overtakes Google
p2pnet.net News:- Yahoo says its online search engine index now spans more than 20 billion Web documents and images – nearly double Google’s.
“Yahoo’s expansion doesn’t necessarily mean it produces more useful results than Google, which has long been considered the Internet’s most comprehensive database,” says the Associated Press.
“But the breakthrough gives the Sunnyvale-based company the bragging rights to a widely watched measurement for assessing the power of an Internet search engine.”
Boosted by a recent upgrade, Yahoo’s index now covers 20.8 billion online "objects" comprised of about 19.2 billion documents and 1.6 billion images, it says, according to AP.
“By comparison, Google said it tracks 11.3 billion objects. That figure consists of the nearly 8.2 billion Web pages that Google proudly touts on its home page and 2.1 billion images, with the remainder of material coming from its group discussions.”
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Associated Press – Yahoo Expands Its Search Engine Index, August 8, 2005
August 9th, 2005 at 3:31 pm
Yahoo seaching more sites, has nothing to do with it “overtaking” Google… XD
This might mean Yahoo searches a few more sites than google… for now, but Google also has the ability to search these sites, and if Google can use Yahoo’s database, then google will get even more stuff to search!