Google Indexes a BILLION pages?

[Ian Winship]

> 
> Google's home page is claiming that their search engine now indexes a 
> billion pages.

According to SearchEngineWatch (http://searchenginewatch.com/news.html):

 Google has also announced that its full-text index size has increased to
 560 million URLs, making it the largest search engine on the web. 
 Additionally, Google says it also returns results from 500 million
partially indexed 
 URLs, giving it a reach of over 1 billion documents.

So not quite as good as it sounds.

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