Boiiiiiiiiing!!!!!

Whoa, just found this when I went to do a google search. MS search launches tomorrow (Thursday)—talk about stolen thunder!

You probably never notice the large number that appears in tiny type at the bottom of the Google home page, but I do. It's a measure of how many pages we have in our index and gives an indication of how broadly we search to find the information you're looking for. Today that number nearly doubled to more than 8 billion pages.... The documents in Google's index are in dozens of file types from HTML to PDF, including PowerPoint, Flash, PostScript and JavaScript. Together these pages represent a good chunk of the world's information.

[Google blog]