Matthew Caulfield wrote in 011120 MMDigest:

> By using the advanced search option (which I always do)
> and keying in "Robbie Rhodes," I pull up 4330 web pages
> using Google, ...

It works with the simple search too.

> ... whereas the same search using MSN's search engine brings
> up only 116 web pages.

In order to compare them, I've tried a search with different engines.
Here are the hits:

 4330   Google
 3200   Yahoo
 2214   Altavista
 1425   Alltheweb
 1424   Lycos
  304   Excite
   29   Webcrawler
   13   Mamma

????   Multimeta

 Yahoo.de:    219 Bytes
 Yahoo.com:   239 Bytes
 Voila:     14130 Bytes
 7search:      63 Bytes
 Mamma:       131 Bytes
 GoTo:         31 Bytes
 HotBot:        0 Bytes
 Lycos:     22593 Bytes
 Kanoodle:     15 Bytes
 Catalogue:  5469 Bytes
 Excite:    20474 Bytes
 MSN:       34363 Bytes
 Altavista: 19853 Bytes
 Entireweb: 38909 Bytes
   Total:  215274 Bytes

Amazingly, a search for your name on German web sites with
<http://www.netfind.de> only delivers 3388 (!) hits.

> Not all of those Robbie Rhodeses are the one we know, but most are!

Yes, this could be true.  On the other hand, the amount of 13 hits with
the "Mamma of all Search Machines" could be of much more value than to
reduce thousands of hits to possibly fulfill a certain question.

> Google searches over one and one-half _billion_ web pages and
> it searches text as well as titles, descriptions, and keywords ...

Yep, and also PDF (Portable Document Format) and Word and Powerpoint
files too.  But other engines will find other links because of their
type (catalogues, worms, spiders, etc.) and because they build an index
concerning a different space -- the whole Internet is much greater than
half a billion pages.

Servus!

Claus Kucher
Vienna

 [ Matthew replied, "Interesting how some of the most highly
 [ advertised products and most widely available ones are _not_
 [ the best.  The best seem often hard to find."
 [
 [ That's the annoying power of advertising!  ;-)  -- Robbie