Asked if the supplemental index is getting bigger, he responds that "new pages are constantly being added, " but that the "algorithmic nature" of Google's spider makes it hard to measure the index's size or how fast it's growing.
The Consumer Prices Index measure of inflation was 4.5% in May, and the Retail Prices Index rate was 5.2%.
Mr. WESSELL: What the Fed likes to do is look at both the consumer price index and another measure called the personal consumption expenditures index.
Latest figures released on Tuesday showed that the Consumer Prices Index measure of inflation had hit 4%.
This is because it is linked to the Retail Prices Index measure of inflation the previous September, which was 4.6%.
The wider Retail Prices Index measure of inflation - the one used for many pay negotiations - is already at 4.3%.
Being a real-time measure, the index contrasts with GDP and employment reports which are based on surveys and come with lags and revisions.
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The condition to peg off-peak fares at RPI -1, or 1% below the retail price index measure of inflation, will be written into the contract for the next rail franchise.
Since 1978, the CPI has been the go-to index to measure inflation or deflation.
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Bradford believes marketers will use the index to measure their brands' levels of awareness in social media.
Or they measure using some other index, but, again, fail to reinvest dividends, which I never understand.
Ten states have announced an increase in their minimum wage effective January 1, mostly because their legislation requires an adjustment to the Consumer Price Index inflation measure.
The business of daily deals created dozens of clones, but is too new for us to have created a category in our Customer Loyalty Engagement Index to measure them.
Its Gini index, a measure of income inequality, dropped from 0.63 to 0.52 from 1989 to 2009.
The Baltic Dry Index, a measure of shipping rates for bulk goods, has foundered.
The producer price index, which measure wholesale inflation, has sagged over the past few months.
This despite the fact the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index, a measure of industry concentration, has soared from 2200 to 2800.
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Last November Prime Minister David Cameron launched a separate "happiness index" to measure the well-being of UK citizens.
In recent days, the VIX Index, a measure of expected stock market volatility has been double the historic norm.
The purchasing managers index, a measure of economic expansion and contraction, reached 50.9 in March, slightly above the equilibrium mark of 50.
TABOR's inflation measure, the consumer price index, rises slower than government spending.
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But not the U.S equity market, with the VIX (the Volatility Index, a measure gauging future anticipated stock market volatility) trading at an astonishingly low level.
His aspiration, endorsement and influence scores now all rank among the top 100 of the 2, 900 celebrities in the Davie Brown Index, which measure consumer perceptions.
Shining an appropriate light on such a wire from the outside would alter its refractive index (a measure of how fast light travelling inside the wire can move).
Mr Darling was speaking after the government's preferred inflation measure, the Consumer Prices Index rose, to 3.3% in May, with the Bank of England warning it may reach 4%.
China's consumer-price index, a measure of inflation, rose at a slower clip in March than in February, which investors interpreted to mean monetary policy was likely to remain relatively accommodative.
In February 2012 the Intuit Small Business Employment Index, a measure of employment at U.S. companies with fewer than 20 employees, stood at 95 percent of its January 2007 level.
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But by the Berkeley team's analysis, the global temperature correlates more closely with the state of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation (AMO) index - a measure of sea surface temperature in the north Atlantic.
And while the DOJ makes much of the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index, a measure of industry concentration that would leap if the merger goes through, a court victory will depend mostly on whose experts are more convincing.
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Chinese prices of steel have risen by 20% since November, and the Baltic Dry Index, a measure of shipping rates and hence the demand for commodities, has more than doubled, although it is still 84% below its 2008 peak.
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