If the web were a vast savanna of content and webpages, search engines might be our safari guides, helping us navigate through miles and miles of barren wastes. At the moment, Google seems to be the guide of choice for most web travellers, and for good reason too: Google has reached over one trillion unique indexed URLs, according to a post on the company weblog by Jesse Alpert & Nissan Hajaj. Contrast this to the paltry 26 million URLs Google had in 1998 when it first started out, and even the one billion the company had attained in 2000.According to the blog: "Over the last eight years, we've seen a lot of big numbers about how much content is really out there. Recently, even our search engineers stopped in awe about just how big the web is these days -- when our systems that process links on the web to find new content hit a milestone: 1 trillion (as in 1,000,000,000,000) unique URLs on the web at once!
View: Google Weblog
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Congratulations, Google!
I don't know about you, but I'm waaay behind my quota.
The max results are :
Results 681 - 690 of about 128,000,000 for madonna
Results 981 - 1000 of about 127,000,000 for madonna (showing irrelevant or duplicated links).
Whereas the other search engines might not have the exact results you're looking for, at least don't have any many of those junk links.. lol
a ) i tried to search some reviews about a specific product (i don't remember if was verbatim model xxxx external harddisk), so i search for "verbatim xxxx problems" (where xxxx is the model) and i find plenty of information but i don't find ANY web complaining about the products, i did the same search in yahoo and i find several pages relating problems with this hardware.
b ) Some words are changed, for example (just a example) if i search for "Amerika" (can be the name of a rock band, or a product or whatever), google will show me results with Amerika and America or in the worst case google search only for America omiting completely the name Amerika.
c ) rapidshare, torrent, emule and such are fooled with several (if not thousand) of nasty sites, while Google is not responsible for this sites but they can ban or un-ranked shuch sites.
d ) Even when Google says "i found thousand of sites", only a few are showed even allowing to see the "hidden irrelevant links".
b ) Some words are changed, for example (just a example) if i search for "Amerika" (can be the name of a rock band, or a product or whatever), google will show me results with Amerika and America or in the worst case google search only for America omiting completely the name Amerika.
Perhaps it should be advertised better, but if you find Google is messing with your search queries, you can just put quotes around them to force it to search for that exact spelling.
I have been having troubles recently with my Windows update, so I enter "Windows Update Error code xxxxx" and the first 2 pages in Google showed the same result, the only difference being that each result was mirrored from a different site. Very annoying, and not very useful.
I liked the way the search was for "harry potter" & "windows vista"
...oh well...now starts the real Google killer....Cuil.com ? :-)
Bad that neowin isnt making a headline for it...i saw couple of post by many people..including a blogger at microsoft showing a link of cuil ...
and know what? Google is getting feared!!..it released a article in its official blog fearing of cuil ;-)
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/we-...eb-was-big.html
http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/Ne...2365520,00.html
and atlast...
www.cuil.com
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Yep we have a winner here
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Yep we have a winner here
Google is now 10 yrs old...Cuil is just a day old..compare the difference...
comparing the difference, how the hell can a day old website automatically be considered the 'google' killer... all and all looks like a marketing buzz
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