Yahoo Passes Google in Total Items Searched

tonyquan writes "Yahoo announced today that its search engine passed Google's for overall capacity, with 20 billion documents and images indexed versus 11.3 billion for Google. Observers had previously pegged Yahoo's index at just 8 billion items. The growth is due to a recent expansion effort. More info can be found on the Yahoo! Search blog and at CNet."

20 billion documents, I wonder...

[baylanger]

Are those 20 billion documents, the actual SPAMs I received at my yahoo mail account since 1994?

Um,

[tfoss]

It's not the size of your index, it's the results you get with it.

Right?

RIGHT?!?

-Ted

Re:Interesting

[matt21811]

"Of course, now if you still doubt, you're welcome to count all 11.5bn results and make sure none of them are dupes :-)"

Thats easy to do, just submit all 11.5bn pages as stories on slashdot and the dups will automatically appear on the front page!

Re:Great...

[bedroll]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=crap&btnG=Goo gle+Search [google.com]

had to do it, sorry..

Sorry for the "self reply"...

[NotQuiteReal]

But I find the 11.3 Billion hits for Yahoo an odd coincidence, given that the /. story mentions 11.3 billion for Google ...

Maybe the editors need to check on something, or we all ought to count 11.3 billion as the "new 42".

Big Increase - Simple Explanation

[ndansmith]

The increase can be explained by Yahoo adding Slashdot dupes to their index.

In Soviet Russia...

[Anonymous Coward]

from google:
Results 1 - 10 of about 3,930 for "In Soviet Russia" slashdot.org

from Yahoo!:
Results 1 - 10 of about 11,300 for "In Soviet Russia" slashdot.org - 0.38 sec.

 

Looks convincing to me, comrades!

Re:Yahoo! playing Tortoise to Google's Hare

[cybersaga]

but also have some areas to catch up on

Like how to park [realtechnews.com]?

Re:Google needs to become mature like Yahoo

[Anonymous Coward]

In other news, some guy wrote a Slashdot post and linked to his own blog. Woah, shocker. 9_9

Re:fantastic

[HD Webdev]

How do you figure? Do you find it harder to find restaurants in large cities?

Only if most of those restaurants in large cities give you a menu that only lists Viagra as something you can order.

Re:fantastic

[Anonymous Coward]

Amazing! Yahoo beats Google at something and yet the implication is that Google is doing something right where Yahoo isn't.

Can Google do any wrong??? (Hint: yes! One example is google groups. By default no quoting is done in a followup so you get these idiots on usenet asking questions with NO CONTEXT.)

Re:If anyone can do it...

[AoT]

That is funny, I just read it as "why not?"

Re:fantastic

[Steve Franklin]

Whoosh yourself. I got it. You didn't get that I was extending your joke to include a jab at the guys who create the popups. You are not as smart as you think you are, Sonny.

Re:fantastic

[jtjin]

It's Google updating their public database today from their secret cache of pages that nobody knows about except for me. THERE'S A SECOND INTERNE****NO CARRIER----

Re:I've got Results as to why I prefer Google:

[Anonymous Coward]

The next time I'm just dying to search for info on Kyzyl, I'll know that Google is the better choice for that particular search. Thanks for your informative post!

A faint voice

[evilviper]

Just then, a faint voice could be heard comming from Yahoo's headquarters...

"I'm not dead yet..."