Google - Searching 3,083,324,652 web pages

[oxygen]

The half of the year number of pages in google database does not change.

Why?
1. webmasters in all the world have stopped work?
2. Google does not index new pages?
3. Google indexes the new pages and simultaneously deletes old?
4. Google has forgotten to update home page?

The Other ideas?

[mcavic]

4.

[Mohamed_E]

They seem to update that number at fairly long intervals, adding a billion or so.

[vincevincevince]

it normally is just a few (million) over a nice round number... kind of milepost

so i guess they will change it when they hit 4 US billion

[ciml]

I tend to think of it as a Google enigma.

On the one hand, we see Google's casual disregard for publishing their constantly expanding index. On the other hand, why publish it to ten significant figures?

[soapystar]

3,083,324,652 web pages

they never said it was the SAME 3,083,324,652 web pages
:-)

[Yidaki]

5. Strategy

However, 3,083,324,652 pages is pretty enough for me anyway.

[g1smd]

Maybe with rolling update they could update it a bit more frequently.

They would never move to a daily total, as then you could analyse what has changed with figures going up and down as the algo changes.

[Imaster]

Perhaps Google should start a real-time figure, just like [gigablast.com...] provides :) It would make the main page look very dynamic :)

[IITian]

I think that after AllTheWeb started competing for publicized number of pages indexed, both decided to call it quits. Just guessing.