Trying to determine the size of the World Wide Web is like is like figuring out how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, writes the New York Times, referring to a recent tempest in a tea cup about whose search index, Yahoo's or Google's, is the biggest after Yahoo announced last week that it's got the biggest one - consisting of 19.2 billion web "objects." Google said, basically, that Yahoo was double-counting.

Meanwhile, SearchEngineWatch's Danny Sullivan wrote on Tuesday titled, "Screw Size! I Dare Google & Yahoo to Report on Relevancy."

"I cannot believe we're going through this again. This is Search Engine Size Wars VI, by my count. It's absurd. It's annoying. It's a friggin' waste of time. Instead of advancing to a commonly accepted relevancy figure, the search engines want to keep us mired in the mud of who's biggest," Sullivan fumed.

"Nothing has changed. Size hasn't suddenly gotten more important overnight. What has happened is for the first time, one search engine is strongly disputing the claims of another. Google doesn't believe the figures Yahoo is bandying about…. Yahoo has been steadfast that it's not lying."

On Sunday, researchers at the National Center for Supercomputer Applications ran a random sample of 10,012 queries and determined that Google, on average, returned 166.9 percent more results than Yahoo, the Times reported.