Hey,

My pals at Yahoo! just stole away Google’s crown of largest index — crushing them with a 19.2 billion document index. Sweet! Good work, guys!

Can’t wait to see what those wild and crazy Googlers do. My guess…. publicly agree with Yahoo! that size doesn’t matter, then work really, really hard to put out something bigger, and then say it does matter when they release it. Because to some degree, it does matter.

Oh, and for those wondering what we’re gonna do at MSN Search… fear not, we too are working hard! I can’t provide any details or forward-looking statements etc. etc., but I can say that the search space is very competitive, and just as Yahoo! and Google are playing to win, so will we.

Feels kinda like 1996, but with a viable business model…. it’s just great to be in search!