1) They know their numbers. Not the numbers for other companies.
2) We don't know any of the numbers.
If my apartment was on fire, I'd like to know how many other apartments were burning, and so would my landlord. Yahoo is one apartment on the web, and we are the landlords of our government. Yahoo knows how much of their apartment is on fire, but they know nothing about Google across the hall from them.
2) Wrong again. We know ranges (see link above) and we don't need to know the exact numbers. All we need to know is that the house is on fire, and we already know that.
> they know nothing about Google
Sigh. See above.
The exact number issue is a red herring. Again, this is simply a PR ploy.
2) We don't know any of the numbers.
If my apartment was on fire, I'd like to know how many other apartments were burning, and so would my landlord. Yahoo is one apartment on the web, and we are the landlords of our government. Yahoo knows how much of their apartment is on fire, but they know nothing about Google across the hall from them.