August 18, 2005
Search Engine Study
For those who may be interested in the power and depth of search engines, computer scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications decided to study the indexes of the two biggest search engines - Google and Yahoo.
In response to a Yahoo claim to have access to over 20 billion items which include 19.2 billion web documents, 1.6 billion images, and over 50 million audio and video files, reserchers conducted a head-to-head analysis. Based on a random sample, they found that on average Yahoo! only returns 37.4% of the results that Google does and, in many cases, returns significantly less.
To read about the methodology and details of the study click here.
Posted by rsk at August 18, 2005 12:31 PM