Google is so massive, it has decided it no longer has to brag about how huge it is.
The AP reports today that the company will no longer list the size of its search index on its home page.
Says the wire: “When Google started the practice in mid-2000, the index spanned 1 billion pages; as of Monday afternoon, Google’s home page said the search index contained 8.17 billion pages.”
Yahoo started making similar claims, except it claimed to index 96 gazillion pages (Ed. – Or something like that), a claim that “came under immediate fire from Google executives, who questioned its accuracy before finally concluding that the two companies are counting things differently.”
Google now says it and Yahoo are “counting things differently” and has agreed to disagree. “And – na na-na na na-na – by the way, we’re so huge we don’t even have to put it on our home page anymore.” That’s more of an artistic interpretation of what we think Google would say than an actual quote, but you get the drift.
Via My Way News
