Google to Overture: Mine’s Bigger

August 30th, 2003 by Loren | No Comments

No End Near in the Search Engine Peeing Contest

Overture and Google have fired new salvos in the search engine size wars, expanding their databases of searchable web pages by millions of pages.

Overture announced last week that it had increased the size of its AlltheWeb database to 3,151,743,117 pages, claiming the title of world’s largest search index. The new index was about 68 million pages larger than Google’s claimed 3,083,324,652 pages.

Yesterday, Google upped the ante, updating its home page to report “searching 3,307,998,701 web pages.” The change was made without comment by Google.

The two companies have a history of competing for bragging rights over their index sizes.

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