February 18, 2004 ~ USA Today ~ Section: Money, p.06b "Google Eyes a Gaggle of Sites" by Jefferson Graham

Accessibility tops 6 billion web pages
-Google said Tues that it now accesses more than 6 billion Web pages, images and online postings
-an estimated 10 billion Web pages currently exist
-Google previously had access to 3.3 billion pages, it now covers 4.3 billion pages, 880 million images, 845 million bulletin board posts
-images took the biggest jump, doubling in size bc of the popularity of digital cameras -Yahoo is dumping Google next month for its own search technology
-closest any competitor comes is 3.1 billion pages , from Yahoo-owned AlltheWeb.com
-internet analysts estimate AdWords revenue at about $1 billion for 2003