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Past Wednesday reached Google a memorable milestone: the business indexeert now more than 8 billions internet documents. Google lies however under fire because of alleged censorship of the Abu Ghraib-scandal.

The head of Google's ontwikkelafdeling Clenched reports Coughran the news about the doubling of the missing data boss on the Google Blog, a public weblog of the business.

Coughran writes: “Completeness is not the most important factor when you a missing machine on dear will estimate, but it is indispensable by missing tasks from which only single results result. If I seek on friends where firstly only a handful of results returned, see I now the double number. And that then not simple copies of the same pages are, but cht different results with more information.”

He writes further that 8 billions pages a “note-worthy milestone” is, but repeats that the indices do never stops.

Microsoft wanted to be own missing machine Thursday a new version of, say worked at which the business according to own almost two year. MSN Search beta has an index of 5 billions documents. “The index is continued expanded, through which the chance that the user finds what he seeks always more large becomes”, late Microsoft know.

Microsoft works the index within which sought can become weekly and in some cases daily by. Missing results become thus always more accurate and more recent, puts the business. With five billions documents in the data boss Microsoft Google temporary furrow faces must.

The verversing of the index is a subject of discussion. Google lies all only time under fire because of alleged censorship of unwanted images in the Google Image Search (GUESS). Who seeks on Abu Ghraib, the Irakese martelgevangenis under American administration, finds no single image about that incident.

Also missing tasks with the names of guards Lynndie England and Charles Graber yields no result. A search to images about “iraq torture” yields only old images of for the Abu Ghraib-scandal, while the martelpraktijken came in April 2004 on the front pages in the right place already.

Censorship is not it, implores Google-senior official Sergey Bin. He blames the - according to own say with the schaamrood on the craps - on an antiquated index. “GUESS is already certainly a half year no longer improved”, declared Brin opposite newssite Slashdot. Google promises will change the SMART-data boss “fast” again.

In the reactions by Slashdot becomes that explanations with only skepticism receive. A reader wisest it on that the 'antiquated' data boss photographs contain of hello ups and downs celebrations that in October 2004 have been held.