NCSA Compares Google and Yahoo Index Numbers 395
chrisd (former Slashdot editor and now Google employee) writes "Recently, Yahoo claimed an increase of index size to "over 20 billion items", compared to Google's 8.16 billion pages. Now, researchers at NCSA have done their own, independent, comparison of the two engines. "
Conclusion (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Accurate results? (Score:1, Informative)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bomb [wikipedia.org]
Not only does Google do More, it does Better (Score:3, Informative)
Google not only gave MORE results, it gave BETTER results. The only bad results were some hairsplitting (if largely well meant) from fellow /.ers... (I mentioned Tuva as a suburb of Mongolia, and while it IS a part of the Russian Federation, it is Much More Mongolian than Russian. And if the rising tide of neoNazi scum in Russia get their way, Tuva could easily be cut adrift into the Mongolian/Chinese orbit...but I digress...)
The essential point is: Which Does the Job Better For Me? Google. Therefore, I use Google. Assuming the Copernican position that I am not atypical, I would therefore extrapolate that this is very true for most other people as well. Which means that Yahoo has a LONG way to go and A LOT more work to do.
RS
Re:Proper name samples (Score:3, Informative)
However, in the case of Yahoo! the actual number of search results returned is only one-fifth the estimated total.
Re:What would you want them to return? (Score:2, Informative)
Actually Slashdot prevents robots from spidering its comment pages...
So your point is totally moot...