Prize Query: How many Pages does Google have?

In the bitter war between Yahoo! and Google over search engine index size, Google has decided to give its latest answer in the form of a question.
The comapny said on monday that it had phased in a larger index over the last four weeks, Google unveiled an updated index it said is more than three times larger than that of any of its search engine competitors.

But rather than directly proclaiming it, Google said it would ask web surfer to decide for themselve.
Google's CEO Eric e. Schmidt, said the company would remove the current number from its home page (Searching 8,168,684,336 webpages) and instead ask visitors to guess the size of the new index.

Moreover, in typical offbeat Google style, there will be no announced prize for the best guess, although Schmidt did not rule out the possibility that one would be rewarded.
"We're suggesting that users do a little test", he said.
Google said it would post a guidline to help users make their own comparisions on its weblog googleblog.blogspot.com

although google would not specify the new index size, Google said it is about three times larger than its nearest competitor (read yahoo!).

"We're celebrating our seventh birthday.... We had a pretty strong year. We're announcing tonight that in terms of unduplicated pages our index is now three times larger than any other search engine" Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said in a phone interview with CNET News.com.

In response, Yahoo issued a statement: We congratulate Google on removing the index size number from its home page and for recognizing it is a meaningless number," Yahoo said in a statement. "As we've said in the past, what matters is that consumers find what they are looking for, and we invite Google users to compare their results to Yahoo search at http://search.yahoo.com."