Google's index includes dead pages which are cached but otherwise lost, FWTW. -----Original Message----- From: air-l-admin@aoir.org [mailto:air-l-admin@aoir.org]On Behalf Of Danyel Fisher Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 11:53 AM To: air-l@aoir.org Subject: [Air-l] Worldwide Web Pages Check the slightly-out-of-date, fairly technical article from the WWW9 conference (2000). It made a lot of headlines at the time, as it was a collaboration between IBM and AltaVista / Compaq. http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/k53/www9.final/ They estimate only / as many as 56 million "strongly connected" web pages, which they found by a variety of techniques, including random IP address checking and web crawls, in a larger set of 200 million pages. One might question their technique, as Google claims to have indexed over "1,387,529,000 web pages". Danyel _______________________________________________ Air-l mailing list Air-l@aoir.org http://www.aoir.org/mailman/listinfo/air-l