Useful to show that any values can be shown with a bad experiment, it seems.

I've heard complaints that they've introduced significant bias by only using English words, but my issue is that they've only counted links, and haven't bothered to actually look at them.

If it weren't against Google's Terms of Service to search against them in the manner that was done so, (I would assume with Yahoo, as well, but I haven't looked), I'd be interested to know if for any of the searches they did, if Yahoo contained any pages that Google didn't list

Again, that might just show different search algorithms, but because Google tends to return as much as it can, it might be an indicator of Yahoo is larger or not.

I'll just wait to see if this thing passes vetting in a scientific journal ... I'm guessing not.

In reply to Re: A Comparison of the Size of the Yahoo! and Google Indices by jhourcle
in thread A Comparison of the Size of the Yahoo! and Google Indices by itub

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