although google removes number of indexed pages; size war not over
In a smart move, after a long pressure from many blogs, google removes
the total number of crawled documents from their homepage. This happens
together with their's 7th birthday. On one side this is a great end for
the search engine size wars, which was mainly pointless; who cares if
the index is double if you can't find what you are looking for. On the
other side, google seems to go out of this war on the back door, with a
tricky claim that their index size is "three times larger than [] any
other search engine" (source the google blog).
It's puzzling that they gave up and at the same time claim to be the
ultimate winners (three times...). Seems that they sneakily tried to
push into the public awareness stream their birthday, their
renunciation, and their size claim. Therefore I dare to believe that
the search engine size wars are far from over.
But who knows, maybe I judge this wrong; since seems that I am the only one seeing this
But who knows, maybe I judge this wrong; since seems that I am the only one seeing this
