Posted on Tuesday, July 29 2008 @ 0:00 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Search engine king Google claims
its index now surpasses trillion unique web pages.
After years of silence about the vastness of its Web index, Google announced Friday it had found 1 trillion unique Web pages. "We're proud to have the most comprehensive index of any search engine, and our goal always has been to index all the world's data," a Google spokeswoman said in a statement.
A bit of history: In August 2005, a similar claim put forward by Yahoo that it had indexed 20 billion URLs prompted a public rebuke from Google. "Our scientists are not seeing the increase claimed in the Yahoo index," a Google representative told blogger and search expert John Battelle.
A month later, Google asserted it had indexed 26 billion URLS and was "more than 3 times larger than any other search engine."
