Showdown Size Estimates Updated

I have updated my Relative Size Showdown and the Total Size Estimate analyses with data from Oct. 9, 2000. Using 25 new search terms, and verifying the actual number of hits available for the five largest search engines as measured by the last Size Showdown, Fast's All the Web found the most with Google in a close second. Northern Light moved up to pass both iWon and AltaVista. See also, Fast's Press Release.

Today, Google has upped their claimed database size on their main Web page to 1,247,340,000 Web pages. Unfortunately, it does not state how many more fully indexed Web pages are in the index. It used to be 560 million. A quick comparison of Google results from today to how they performed on the Oct. 9 showdown does not show any significant change in results.