Following up on yesterday's post (link), John Battelle writes:
I had a long chat today with folks from Yahoo about the ongoing "size matters" tempest, and it was once again enlightening. I'm planning a longer post on all this, but the upshot of our conversation was that Yahoo stands by its number, that it agrees with many that size alone does not matter, that any claims that any one company can accurately estimate another's index are simply not defensible, and that, in the end, the proof will be in the results.
Yahoo also acknowledged that it was certainly aware of the PR angle when it made its announcement, and that given Google's home page claim regarding index size, it was hardly a new tactic to tout that number.
Link to full text of post.
Previously: Battelle on Yahoo search claims, Google reply
