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NCSA Calls a Do-Over On Yahoo! Google Comparison

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The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) found itself cleaning up after a pair of Illinois college students after they published (loudly) their dispute of how big Yahoo! total index was. It is unknown whether they were slapped or not. After everybody, including (clears throat) study reads a new disclaimer: "The following study was completed by two of Professor Vernon Burton's students at the University of Illinois. It should be noted that this study was done outside the scope of any NCSA core projects. This version is a followup study to the original study that was done to address some legitimate concerns about the inclusion of "wordlists" and "dictionaries" in the study results. The followup study again sampled ~10,000 search queries of Google and Yahoo (excluding dictionaries and wordlists) and found similar results to the original study." The updated study still claimed that the results found Google's index to be much bigger than Yahoo!'s, but not as much. The study, which no one will now refer to, states that Google returned 65% more results than Google. According to French researcher Jean Veronis, who asked some intense questions of the original study, even Professor Burton's name has been

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