Google Announces it Processes Over 1 Trillion Unique URLs

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/ ... s-big.html

I find the timing of this information interesting as today was the day Cuil launced announcing they have the biggest index on the internet:

other-search-engines/search-engine-cuil-launched-compete-with-google-t90243.html



A few days ago Google announced this information with regards to the 1 trillion mark. News is also spreading all around that Cuil is having major problems and their attempt to compete with Google is downright embarassing. Their results don't show up for common words like "frog" and "toad" and not even for their own search engine "Cuil". Ozzu doesn't show up, as well as many other missing websites.

I still haven't figured out if it's actually a trillion pages, or a trillion links. I've been seeing conflicting news on this subject.

It is kind of confusing how they say it. In their first paragraph they talk about how many pages they had indexed over their history, then they throw out the 1 trillion number except use the term "links" instead (but all in the same paragraph). Another part of the blog says this:



So it sounds like they are saying they examine 1 trillion links everyday, but since many are duplicates not every page is listed. Either way from what I can tell Google has way more indexed than Cuil, I don't even get results for many things that should come up. Or Cuil is just buggy at the moment.

Now a trillion page pool makes sense.
The most results I've found for any one word at Google doesn't even number 50 billion & that's for words like "a" or the number "1".

Maybe Cuil had issues adding more hardware & misplaced some data, I remember seeing something about it going down to add capacity awhile ago.

They may have developed a decent database of links but need to work on Algo, although I'm not quite sure whether it can put a tough challenge before Google or it will grab a part of Live's already shrinked share in search engine market.

Cuil, I visited it about half an hour ago, and was looking for information about RAR file. I needed to download the extractor. I typed download RAR. What I found was quite embarrassing if someone was standing next to me. ( out of the 3 columns links ).

I think it was much skewed as most analysts would have said. Another blog says it's only a day old and Google has been in Search for about a decade. So we can't tell from now.

In my own conclusion for tonight, I don't think it can beat Google search relevancy, not today nor the next 10 years.

I don't see the niche for someone who wants size than quality.

interestingly, i searched ozzu.com and a post on the v7n boards came up (O_o)? lol

http://www.v7n.com/forums/seo-forum/34047-ozzu-com.html

i couldn't get to the site they were talking about as i got a 403 error, but it was weird to read someone mimicked ozzu (o_O)

that is just mind boggling... 1 T links.... crazay