bill - 5:23 am on Jun 27, 2002 (gmt 0)

>japanese Bill, that's interesting. A major purge in japanese pages... in a time of massive index growth

I got the impression that they cleaned out a lot of junk. Some of the terms I watch have cleaned up results, particularly duplicate pages. Maybe they're prepping better results as window dressing for Yahoo?

Those figures, do you know how up to date they were?

I got that from a report released this week on a Japanese language site that tracks this sort of minutia. It's pretty fresh and I believe the data is reliable.