Needles and Haystacks

Proliferation of web publishing

Estimated 1 billion indexable pages on the web (NEC Research Institute and Inktomi, February 2000)

Percentage of full text indexed by each search engine:

• Google 56%

• WebTop.com 50%

• Inktomi 50%

• Alta Vista 35%

• FAST 34%

• Northern Light 27%

• Excite 25%

• Go (Infoseek) 5% (2)

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