Google Blogoscoped

If you're interested in Google, you might want to check my weblog:

Google Blogoscoped
http://blog.outer-court.com

Also see the archive*, as well as the experimental tools (like the
Centuryshare** calculator or the chatting Egobot which uses the Google
Web API). And the Google Answers Researcher interviews.
Feedback welcome!

* http://blog.outer-court.com/calendar/
** http://blog.outer-court.com/centuryshare/

Philipp Lenssen

If you're interested in Google, you might want to check my weblog:

Google Blogoscoped
http://blog.outer-court.com

"[Humble Google With 5 Billion Pages]
Microdoc does the "+the" search in Google to find out there's 5,240,000,000
pages. "

That's not accurate. Many webmasters, myself included, find that Google
misreports the real numbers of pages it has indexed. Sometimes it even claims,
when doing an allinurl: search, almost double the number of pages than actually
exist on the website.

There are various reasons for this, including failing to remove old listings,
listing extra pages with framed redirects to the same place, or perhaps simply
bugginess. I'm not sure how they calculate the figures, but it's just a very
approximate number.

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Alice Woolley
http://www.insidethebubble.co.uk/
Inside the Bubble - autism information

Foxglove54321 wrote:

There are various reasons for this, including failing to remove old
listings, listing extra pages with framed redirects to the same
place, or perhaps simply bugginess. I'm not sure how they calculate
the figures, but it's just a very approximate number.

You are right, we cannot know exactly how many pages they got in store.
However it's interesting how fast they are able to re-adjust their
page-count upwards whenever a competitor announced that they beat
Google!


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