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New search engine numbers from Search Engine ShowdownFebruary 2000 Fast continues to be the largest of the search engines, the latest issue of Greg Notess' Showdown News reports. Northern Light and AltaVista remain in second and third places respectively. Excite and Google both show gains and rank four and five, ahead of all of the Inktomi-based search engines. Notess estimates that Fast has around 300 million pages in its index, Northern Light and AltaVista are in the 200 million range; Excite and Google in the 130 to 150 million range; while the Inktomi databases have between 30 and 80 million pages. For comparison, WebCrawler has only five to six million. It is estimated that the Web has around 1 billion pages. Of the eight search engines compared using a total of 300 records, most had less than 10% dead links, Fast and the three Inktomi databases less than 3%. AltaVista fared the worst at 13.7% while Excite was second worst at 8.7%.
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