According to Google, they’ve increased the number of pages they crawl to over 8 billion. I wonder though – how many blog posts does this include?
Talking of blog posts and search engines, I’m debating whether or not to try and implement so-called ‘fancy URLs’ for this blog. Apparently, search engines aren’t too fond of php, but since the weekend I’ve become a big fan!
More Google trivia – the just-released Firefox 1.0 uses a specially branded Google as the default home page.
But best Google news of all award goes to this: Gmail is going to support POP3! Fantastic news! And it’s very interesting that it comes soon after Hotmail is going to ditch its free support for it. Webmail wars eh?