Briefs

BY Danny Sullivan | October 5, 2005

Google recently dropped the famous count of pages in its index from its home page, while simultaneously claiming it has the most comprehensive collection of Web documents available. This is the long-expected counterblow to Yahoo!'s recent claim to have outdistanced Google.

Dropping the home page count is a positive move I believe helps defuse the size wars situation. That's because it divorces the notion of page count from a method to "prove" comprehensiveness, a long overdue move for the search industry.

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