New Study Sizes Up the Web by Danny SUllivan, CLickz (Jun 29) - At long last, a new estimate on the size of the Web - 11.5 billion pages. Web Size Study was done by Antonio Gulli of Università di Pisa (Gulli also works with Ask Jeeves) and Alessio Signorinialso of the University of Iowa. Paper also estimates percent coverage by some search engines. Google at 69.6% surpasses Yahoo at 57.4%. But as Sullivan says "There are a ton of caveats." Estimate is for visible pages, likely includes duplicates, and uses the self-reported sizes of the search engines. But it's a figure.
Posted by Gwen at June 29, 2005 06:10 PM