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Current figures (OK, current best guesses) put the number of web SITES at between 50 million and 150 million, and the number of INDIVIDUAL web PAGES at 5,000,000,000 (yep, 5 BILLION), with those numbers growing at 10% PER MONTH!
REMEMBER - NO web indexer (search engine) has EVER indexed the ENTIRE web - not even Google. (The highest estimate is 40% for a few of the BEST engines). So what? Simple - if one search engine doesn't have what you're looking for, try another one - it may have indexed a totally different part of the web!
Search Engines Index
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Engine
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Description
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| Google |
Google makes heavy use of link analysis as a primary way to rank these pages. This can be especially helpful in finding good sites in response to general searches such as "cars" and "travel". |
| Yahoo! |
Yahoo supplements its results with those from Google. If a search fails to find a match within Yahoo's own listings, then matches from Google are displayed. Google matches also appear after all |
| AltaVista |
AltaVista is one of the oldest crawler-based search engines on the web. It has a large index of web pages and a wide range of power searching commands. It also offers news search, shopping search and multimedia search. |
| Excite |
Excite results are dominated by paid listings from Overture, with non-paid results from Inktomi. Before Dec. 2001, Excite was a crawler-based search engine that gathered its own results. In Nov. 2001, Excite was acquired by InfoSpace, which also operates meta search engines Dogpile and MetaCrawler. |
| Lycos |
Lycos started out as a search engine, depending on listings that came from spidering the web. In April 1999, it shifted to a directory model similar to Yahoo. Its main listings come from AllTheWeb.com with some results from the Open Directory project. |
| Ask Jeeves |
Ask Jeeves is a human-powered search service that aims to direct you to the exact page that answers your question. |
| HotBot |
In most cases, HotBot's first page of results comes from the Direct Hit service, and then secondary results come from the Inktomi search engine, which is also used by other services. It gets its directory information from the Open Directory project. |
| WebCrawler |
WebCrawler is essentially a copy of the Excite service. WebCrawler was originally a completely independent service, opened to the public on April 20, 1994 |
| AllTheWeb.com |
AllTheWeb.com (also known as FAST Search) consistently has one of the largest indexes of the web. FAST also offers large multimedia and mobile/wireless web indexes, available from its site. The site, also known as AllTheWeb.com, is a showcase for FAST's search technologies. |
| Open Directory |
The Open Directory uses volunteer editors to catalog the web. Formerly known as NewHoo, it was launched in June 1998. It was acquired by Netscape in November 1998, and the company pledged that anyone would be able to use information from the directory through an open license arrangement. |
| About.com |
About.com, formerly the Mining Company, features hundreds of "guides" offering original content in various areas. While About.com isn't really a search service, the guides do have extensive links to other sites -- not to mention top-notch content of their own. |
| Britannica.com |
Links to top web sites and content from the Encyclopedia Britannica, in one place. |
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