Google this week unveiled an updated search index that it said is more than three times larger than that of any of its search engine competitors, reports CNET. "We're celebrating our seventh birthday…We had a pretty strong year," Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt told CNET News.com. But Google will stop noting on its search page the number of pages indexed, "because people don't necessarily agree on how to count it," Schmidt said.
Yahoo last month claimed that at more than 20 billion, its index was larger than Google's.
"We're announcing tonight that in terms of unduplicated pages our index is now three times larger than any other search engine," Schmidt said, without saying how many pages are in the index.
