Imaster - 7:42 am on Oct 22, 2003 (gmt 0)

If you assume that Ink wants to challenge G, then wouldn't it have to crawl as much of the net as possible? ... The smaller the number of sites in their database, the less likely they can return the best results.

You are absolutely correct!

I have seen examples where Ink has crawled only 1/3 of several high profile sites, as compared to Google. And I have seen only several examples and they all are less crawled in Ink than in Google.

If high profile sites are missing so many pages in Ink, we all can understand the amount of sites and pages it must be missing overall. And that simply shows where it stands in comparision with the mighty Google.

If Ink ever wants to match Google, my say would be to first crawl the entire web and then improve the algorithm. I am certain Yahoo would do something positive.