number of documents in the world wide web?

[Tony Barry]

At 2:42 PM 17/10/95, Laura Guy wrote:
>does anyone have a feel for how many documents ARE publically
>accessible via the www?  i guess id mostly be interested in
>html documents (acknowledging of course that web browsers

Lycos says -

>t of the World Wide Web. No other catalog, search tool or directory even comes
>close. Look at the graph below which depicts the catalog sizes of other
>leading providers.
>Would you buy an encyclopedia that only provided 1 of 17 volumes or a
>dictionary that
>listed only the letters A and B? That's the equivalent of what you get
>with these other
>offerings. With a Lycos search you know you have searched everything
>available and there
>are never any subscription fees, retrieval fees or limits on hits.
>
>                    Lycos      91%   7.98 Million
>                    Open Text  12%   0.80 Million
>                    Infoseek    6%   0.40 Million
>                    Yahoo      <1%   0.05 Million
>
>What's more, the Lycos catalog is growing by over 300,000 pages per week.
>We are the only
>catalog growing faster than the Web itself. Very soon we will have
>cataloged over 99% of
>the content of the Web. Check the comparisons below to get an idea as to
>how much more
>information can be available to you

Tony

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