Yahoo! expands search index
9 August 2005
Search engine Yahoo! has announced that its online search engine now spans more than 20 billion web documents and images.
The internet giant claims that its search engine index is now the web’s biggest, scanning almost twice the material of rival Google.
Yahoo! said on Monday that its index had been boosted by a recent upgrade and now covered about 19 billion documents and 1.5 billion images.
The Sunnyvale-based company the bragging rights to a widely watched measurement for assessing the power of an internet search engine.
Google currently tracks 11.3 billion objects, consisting of nearly 8.2 billion web pages and 2.1 billion images, with the remaining material coming from group discussions.
"This is a great reason for more people to check us out," said Eckart Walther, Yahoo!'s vice president of products. "We are more comprehensive than anyone else out there."
Yahoo! unveiled its own search technology and index last year, having previously licensed its search results through Google.
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