Google Searches 5.5 Billion Web Pages
According to the Google.com homepage, Google searches 3,307,998,701 web pages. Yet, when I searched for the word "the" (screenshot) I noticed that it showed "Results 1 - 30 of about 5,500,000,000" at the top of the search results page. Has Google added 2.2 billion pages to its index? Why does Google claim to search 3.3 billion web pages, when it appears to search 5.5 billion pages? Did the additional 2.2 billion pages contribute to the big changes in rankings felt by so many people during the past few months?
Posted under Google on January 05, 2004.
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