Google's 7th Birthday, Schmidt Says Index 3 Times Larger Than Others http://www.webmasterbrain.com/seo-news/google-news/googles-7th-birthday-schmidt-says-index-3-times-larger-than-others/ <p>Google today celebrates their 7th year as a search engine. In an <a href="http://beta.news.com.com/Google+touts+size+of+its+search+index/2100-1038_3-5883345.html">interview with CNET News</a> on the day of the occasion, Eric Schmidt, Google's Chief Executive, claims their index is now three times larger than any other search engines:</p> <blockquote> <p> "We're announcing tonight that in terms of unduplicated pages our index is now three times larger than any other search engine," he said, without saying how many pages are in the index. </p> </blockquote> <p>He also goes on to say that Google will no longer display the size of their index on their homepage, "because people don't necessarily agree on how to count it."</p> <p>Yahoo! had this response to Google's announcement:</p> <blockquote> <p> "We congratulate Google on removing the index size number from its home page and for recognizing it is a meaningless number. As we've said in the past, what matters is that consumers find what they are looking for, and we invite Google users to compare their results to Yahoo search at http://search.yahoo.com." </p> </blockquote> en Copyright 2005 WebmasterBrain.com webmaster@webmasterbrain.com Thu, 07 Sep 2006 14:31:13 GMT Thu, 07 Sep 2006 14:31:13 GMT http://www.webmasterbrain.com/img/logo.gif Google's 7th Birthday, Schmidt Says Index 3 Times Larger Than Others http://www.webmasterbrain.com/seo-news/google-news/googles-7th-birthday-schmidt-says-index-3-times-larger-than-others/ G's index size http://www.webmasterbrain.com/seo-news/google-news/googles-7th-birthday-schmidt-says-index-3-times-larger-than-others/gs-index-size/ &lt;p&gt;they might have about 25 billion pages indexed. so not such a big difference btwn G and Y. (therefore size doesn't matter ;)&lt;/p&gt; http://www.webmasterbrain.com/seo-news/google-news/googles-7th-birthday-schmidt-says-index-3-times-larger-than-others/gs-index-size/#comments Tue, 27 Sep 2005 07:00:12 GMT Google's 7th Birthday, Schmidt Says Index 3 Times Larger Than Others