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04 Aug 08
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03 Aug 08
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- Cuil told us that Google was at 40 billion documents. According to? According to what Cuil has heard that reporters have told them they hear from Google. OK, I talk with both Google and reporters that cover them regularly. I've never heard this figure put out there. Cuil later added after the initial talk with them that comparison testing makes them believe that Google hasn't grown.
- Yahoo was said to be at 20 billion. Cuil said this is based on where Yahoo said it was back in 2005, with the assumption that if they'd gotten bigger, they would have announced this. Bad assumption give that since 2005, the search size detente has kept both Google and Yahoo from talking about size figures.
- Microsoft was said to be at 12 billion. Actually, Microsoft said it was at 20 billion last September -- but if that hard figure isn't being used by Cuil, then you start doubting the other ones they've put out. In a follow-up, Cuil said they believe Microsoft has fallen back to a smaller index of 12 billion, based on its testing.
I already have issues with Cuil's claims. For example:
- Cuil told us that Google was at 40 billion documents. According to? According to what Cuil has heard that reporters have told them they hear from Google. OK, I talk with both Google and reporters that cover them regularly. I've never heard this figure put out there. Cuil later added after the initial talk with them that comparison testing makes them believe that Google hasn't grown.
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Google started reacting to Cuil's claims even before Cuil made them. In a post on Friday, Google just so happened to decide it was time to mention they "knew" of 1 trillion items on the web. That will confuse some people into thinking Google has indexed 1 trillion documents, even though they don't say this. What Google did say clearly was:
We don't index every one of those trillion pages -- many of them are similar to each other, or represent auto-generated content similar to the calendar example that isn't very useful to searchers. But we're proud to have the most comprehensive index of any search engine, and our goal always has been to index all the world's data.
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29 Jul 08
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Arne van ElkGoed artikel van Danny Sulllivan over de nieuwste 'Google-Killer' (ha ha) Cuil (spreek uit Cool).
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28 Jul 08
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"If they wanted to triple size of their index, they'd have to triple the size of every server and cluster. It's not easy or fast," said Patterson.
In a follow-up, Cuil added that Google being as large as they estimated it to be now was largely down to Patterson's work at Google, and since she's no longer there, increasing the index size will be a "non-trivial" exercise.
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Unfortunately, Google started reacting to Cuil's claims even before Cuil made them. In a post on Friday, Google just so happened to decide it was time to mention they "knew" of 1 trillion items on the web. That will confuse some people into thinking Google has indexed 1 trillion documents, even though they don't say this. What Google did say clearly was:
We don't index every one of those trillion pages -- many of them are similar to each other, or represent auto-generated content similar to the calendar example that isn't very useful to searchers. But we're proud to have the most comprehensive index of any search engine, and our goal always has been to index all the world's data.
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