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Yahoo expands search domain

August 9, 2005

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In a major expansion, Yahoo Inc. said Monday that its online search engine index now spans more than 20 billion Web documents and images, nearly double the material scanned by rival Google Inc.

Yahoo's expansion doesn't necessarily mean it produces more useful results than Google, which long has been considered the Internet's most comprehensive database. But the breakthrough gives Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Yahoo bragging rights to a widely watched measurement for assessing the power of an Internet search engine.

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