[WEB4LIB] Google Indexes a BILLION pages?

[Hanan Cohen]

This is what Glassdog (Lance Arthur) wrote about it:

Google announced that they've managed to index 1 billion URLs, making
them 
the self-proclaimed largest search engine on the Internet. Over half of 
those domains are fully indexed and text-searchable, the other
500,000,000 
are partially indexed, meaning, um, that you can put in partial text and 
get partial answers? Maybe? Something like that?


Tara Calishain wrote:
> 
> Hey folks,
> 
> Google's home page is claiming that their search engine now indexes a
> billion pages.
> 
> A billion. Billion. BILL-YUN.
> 
> Yoiks.
> 
> Anyway, here's my ResearchBuzz writeup and a couple pointers for more
> information.
> 
> Billion. Cripes.
> 
> Tara
> 
>   Google Goes Giga: A ONE BILLION PAGE SEARCH ENGINE???!
> 
> Sometimes you just get the idea that something is in the air -- and
> then your readers toss you cryptic e-mails. A big thanks to reader
> AK who alerted me to Google's new look this morning -- GIGA GOOGLE
> ( http://www.google.com ) is now claiming over one BILLION Web
> pages in its search engine index ( according to the press release
> at http://www.google.com/pressrel/pressrelease26.html .) In a
> separate press release (
> http://www.google.com/pressrel/pressrelease25.html ) Google
> announced that it is now Yahoo's default search engine provider.
> (In other words, they'll be the index Yahoo searches if there are
> no results in the Yahoo directory.) That means Yahoo has gone from
> AltaVista to Inktomi to, now, Google. Wow. This is quite a Monday
> and it's not even 10:30 yet.
> 
> ResearchBuzz:
> " ... without a doubt one of the most consistently
> valuable and interesting Internet resources
> newsletters available." -- The Scout Report
> http://www.researchbuzz.com

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