claus - 12:32 pm on Aug 23, 2003 (gmt 0)

The Google figure tends not to be updated afaik. Or, updated very infrequently. A lot of threads mention this. It is possible that G really has more pages indexed, and of course also that they do not.

OTOH, FAST/ATW is a quite powerful SE. Imho it is a good alternative, and i do use it a lot personally. For one thing their advanced search simply offers more options.

/claus