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    Apr 28, 2008, 06:46 AM
    Google vs. alltheweb
    Alltheweb.com clearly has more (many more) pages indexed than Google... so why is Google the top referenced search engine?

    ... just curious...
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    Apr 28, 2008, 06:53 AM
    Google's strangle hold on the search market, roughly 70% usage.

    Alltheweb, may index more pages, but what do they include in this?
    Remember Google did dump a load of pages from blogs, etc.
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    Apr 28, 2008, 07:44 AM
    Aaah, so their angle is quality over quantity. Makes sense.
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    Apr 28, 2008, 07:48 AM
    I like this part about alltheweb:
    Search tool owned by Yahoo and using its database
    , so their search isn't even unique to them.

    This is a good piece about Google and Yahoo.
    Google and Yahoo fling earns Justice Department's evil eye | The Register

    Excellent stats.
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    Apr 28, 2008, 07:51 AM
    That's strange. Search a term in Yahoo and Alltheweb and you get a different # of hits.

    In some cases Yahoo has more, in some cases ATW has more.

    ... both have far more than Google in every instance I tested.
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