28 Aug
2001
28 Aug
'01
6:53 p.m.
Check the slightly-out-of-date, fairly technical article from the WWW9 conference (2000).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