Counting Angels on a Pinhead: Critically Interpreting Web Size Estimates
Michael Dahn
ONLINE, January 2000
"The size of the Web is 800 million pages, and the biggest search engine
only covers about 16% of it."
Please don't say that. Please don't write it. It's incorrect, and as
information professionals, we should know better.
http://www.onlineinc.com/onlinemag/OL2000/dahn1.html
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Ian Winship
Information Services, University of Northumbria at Newcastle
City Campus Library, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST, UK
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