A Comparision of the Size of the Yahoo and Google Indices
Yahoo recently wrote on the Yahoo! Search blog, that their index now provides access to over 20 billion items (Compared to Googles 8.1 billion). A couple of days after Professor John Battelle responded with a post where he mentioned the fact that Google Scientists did not seem to fully agree on Yahoo claims. Well to make a long story shorter Matthew Cheney and Mike Perry, researchers at the NCSA under the supervision of Dr. Orville Vernon Burton, decided to make a brief study of the two rival indexes, and see just who’s got the biggest and most mighty index..
A Comparision of the Size of the Yahoo and Google Indices
Tags: Cheney, Google, Index, NCSA, Orville, Perry, Science, Search, supercomputing, Technology, web, Yahoo
