Introduction – Google has over 1.3 billion pages indexed.
Hmm…a quick look at the Google home page, and I realized they don’t show the number of indexed pages there anymore. I guess the page war they used to have with the other search engines got boring! I typed the word “the” into the Google search box, and it came up with 9,890,000,000 pages indexed. Let’s just call it 10 billion. That’s nearly 10 times more pages indexed than in 2000.
In SEO terms, that means there’s 10 times more competition for most keyword phrases — ouch!
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