August 16, 2005

Google vs. Yahoo: Does size matter?

OK, so in response to claims that Yahoo has indexed twice as many pages as Google, we have A Comparision of the Size of the Yahoo and Google Indices, in which the researchers compare the number of results returned for just over 10000 queries and conclude that since Yahoo returns fewer results, it must not have as many pages indexed, and certainly not twice as many.

But as anybody who's tried to wade through useless results has wondered, is more really better? Maybe -- and I have no reason to say this other than speculation -- Yahoo has a better way of choosing results?

Like I said, I have no idea how they decide what to display, and maybe they really don't have all of the pages they say they do. I'm just pointing out a major flaw in the experiment's methodology.

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I'm glad to see we agree:

http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/005016.html

:-)

Posted by: Jeremy Zawodny at August 17, 2005 12:07 PM
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