Information Research Weblog

News from Search Engine Watch on the issue of who's got the biggest index. [Perhaps there'll be a new burst of spam - 'Proven ways to increase your index size!!!!!!!!!']

As Danny Sullivan, the author, says:

Size figures have long been used as a surrogate for the missing relevancy figures that the search engine industry as a whole has failed to provide. Size figures are also a bad surrogate, because more pages in no way guarantees better results.

However, it's easy to use pages indexed (even if you aren't telling the truth - see the article) in the publicity battle, so I guess it will keep on going.