Stefan - 1:35 am on May 4, 2006 (gmt 0)

It's quite ironic: Google made a big point of indexing every page they could find for a long time, so the total number they always trumpeted would constantly increase. In the course of it, they vacuumed up billions of URL versions for what were actually just millions of pages (to hell with determining which is the right URL - we'll list them all!), billions of "directory" pages, billions of scrapers, billions of blogs, and now both their search results and machines have choked on all that useless dross.

Imho, it's a good thing. If this is what it has taken to hose out all the crap that pollutes the internet, great stuff.