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Re:Google Misleading: The Size Of The Web And The Size Of Th... by wave on Friday July 25, 2008 @07:05PM (#257210)
That may be true today [Google having the most comprehensive index of any search engine], but it probably won’t be true next week (check back here then)

Is there another search engine coming to the market that is even better than Google?

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Re:Google Misleading: The Size Of The Web And The Size Of Th... by aneesh on Friday July 25, 2008 @07:52PM (#257233)
It's pretty close to impossible for a newcomer to suddenly index more of the web than Google. It's gotta be Yahoo or Live. The question is which one? And how'd they do it?

One of the TC commenters suggested that it's due to MSFT indexing facebook ...

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Re:Google Misleading: The Size Of The Web And The Size Of Th... by bdotdub on Friday July 25, 2008 @07:56PM (#257236)
Microsoft just announced their new search engine ... maybe that?
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Re:Google Misleading: The Size Of The Web And The Size Of Th... by trs90 on Saturday July 26, 2008 @01:56AM (#257402)
cuill?
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Re:Google Misleading: The Size Of The Web And The Size Of Th... by aneesh on Saturday July 26, 2008 @02:07AM (#257407)
I heard that rumor too. If so, I'm impressed.
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Re:Google Misleading: The Size Of The Web And The Size Of Th... by anaulin on Saturday July 26, 2008 @11:29AM (#257570)
Why are we assuming that size of index => better search experience?
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Re:Google Misleading: The Size Of The Web And The Size Of Th... by tlrobinson on Friday July 25, 2008 @08:32PM (#257254)
I thought this was a given. I never assumed that "size of web" == "size of our index".
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