The SEO community boasts a multitude of different opinions as to the volume of text indexed by the search engines on a single Web page. The question is, how large should the optimized page be? At what point is the balance between a page so short that SEs disregard it as "non-informative", and one that's so long that it leaves potentially important content beyond the spiders' attention?
As far as I know, no one has yet tried to answer this question through their own experimentation. The participants of SEO forums typically confine themselves to quoting guidelines published by the engines themselves. Today, the belief that the leading search engines limit the volume of indexed text by the notorious "100 KB" limit is still is still widely held within the SEO community, leaving SEOs' customers scratching their heads as they try to figure out what to do with the text that extends beyond this limit.