Briefs

On August 8th, 2005 Tim Mayer of Yahoo! posted on the Yahoo! Search Blog that the [Yahoo!] index now provides access to over 20 billion items - which include "19.2 billion web documents, 1.6 billion images, and over 50 million audio and video files". [1] Two days later, on his blog, University of California at Berkeley Visiting Professor John Battelle reported that Google refuted this claim saying "their scientists are not seeing the increase claimed in the Yahoo! index". [2] In order to test Yahoo!'s claims, Matthew Cheney and Mike Perry, two researchers working for the National Center for Supercomputing Application (NCSA) under the supervision of Associate Director Dr. Orville Vernon Burton, conducted a brief study of the indices of the two search engines.

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