Google now searching over 8 billion pages

Google's index has almost doubled to over 8 billion pages. As of today, the message at the bottom of the main page says "Searching 8,058,044,651 web pages". According to the Official Google Blog, this new index includes HTML, PDF, PowerPoint, Flash, PostScript and JavaScript. The part about JavaScript is quite interesting. A lot of experts have been claiming that Google doesn't index JavaScript. But it looks like now they do. I've got to look into this further.

This is great news for all website owners. It means that it's more than likely that any page that you've been trying to get into the Google index is now in there. I wonder if this is a coincidence or good timing for the launch of Microsoft's new Search Engine?