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Google Adds One Billion Pages To Index

February 18, 2004

In an announcement that is very interesting due to timing, Google announces that they have added one billion pages to their index, an increase of 33%. They now claim to have over 4 billion pages indexed.

The timing of the news is interesting for two reasons:

1) Yahoo! dumping Google
2) Google's impending IPO

Our question is where did this influx of pages come from? Has Google just been "sitting" on these extra pages? According to the log files of the hundreds of domains we track, GoogleBot's activity has greatly slowed over the last 30 days.

Update: Google publicly annouces it wasn't a one billion page increase, but a THREE billion page increase. Google's index doubles overnight.