Kevin's Weblog

How lame.

After claiming both that size doesn’t matter and that our search team was “exaggerating”, Google now brags that theirs is bigger.

Note that they say they can prove it, but decline to actually do it, inviting people to “prove it themselves”. Also, while they say that it’s unique pages that really matter, they tell people to include omitted results in their test. Well, okay, I’ll play along with their pepsi challenge. Let’s search on my name on both, and scan down as far as we can.

• Google, duplicates omitted — 125 results
• Yahoo, duplicates omitted — 202 results
• Google, duplicates included — 986 results
• Yahoo, duplicates included — over 1000 results

Of course, for those who care about relevance, Google doesn’t turn up my home page until result 4, and that’s the only result from my site on the front page. Yahoo puts my blog in result 1 and also includes my resume and home page on the top ten.