Building a bigger search engine.

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LookSmart is aiming to topple Google by building a bigger search engine that uses distributed computing. LookSmart has released a screensaver, "Grub," that harnesses the spare computing power of volunteers' machines to index the Web. Wired says the number of people running Grub jumped from less than 100 to more than 1,000 in just a few days, and the system is already crawling more than 26 million web pages. LookSmart believes the "distributed crawl" approach will eventually allow it to index all of the web's estimated 10 billion pages every day. Google crawls about 150 million web pages each day. Some search engine analysts aren't optimistic.(As reported on corante.com 4/17/03)

http://www.corante.com/internet/redir/21205.html

http://www.searchencginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/2177021 Breakdown of the Number of Words Used in Search Phrases * Worldwide, March-April 2003 2 words 29.22% 1 words 24.76% 3 words 24.33% 4 words 12.34% 5 words 5.43% 6 words 2.21% 7 words 0.94% Note: * via search engines Source: OneStat.com, April 2003 047388 [C] 2003 eMarketer, Inc. www.eMarketer.com Note: Table made from bar graph