How Does Yahoo Determine the number of pages to index

[wchan07]

Hi all,

I had a question of about how Yahoo / Inktomi Slurp determines the NUMBER of pages to index.

How is it determined? From my experience Google uses Page Rank. I recently created a lyrics site and Yahoo indexed 12,000 pages in a week. That's great.

Google has indexed fewer than 10.

If anyone can shed light on this mystery that would be great.

[BillyS]

I believe they flip a coin. Heads they win, tails you lose.

[Angonasec]

Possibly G may not 'like' your lyrics site since many of the songs are already in their index on other sites. They seem particular fierce on duplicate content.