Posted on 07/26/2008 3:53:59 PM PDT by Zakeet
Engineers at web search giant Google say their company's computers recently hit an eye-popping milestone: the measurement of 1 trillion pages that Google measured on the web.
"We've known it for a long time: the web is big. The first Google index in 1998 already had 26 million pages, and by 2000 the Google index reached the one billion mark," wrote Jesse Alpert and Nissan Hajaj, software engineers for Google's Web Search Infrastructure Team. "Over the last eight years, we've seen a lot of big numbers about how much content is really out there. Recently, even our search engineers stopped in awe about just how big the web is these days - - when our systems that process links on the web to find new content hit a milestone: 1 trillion (as in 1,000,000,000,000) unique URLs on the web at once!," they wrote.
Google doesn't index every page, the duo write, because some URLs are redundant or are developed by auto-generated content. The company's goal, they said, remains to "index all of the world's data." The process of counting web pages includes, essentially, starting with established, trusted sites and following the URLs that are linked out from those pages.
In addition, Google continues to spend to keep its own infrastructure strong enough to contend with that growth. During a conference call with financial analysts earlier this quarter, Google CFO George Reyes said the company's capital expenditures for the most recent quarter hit almost $700 million - - most of that for IT infrastructure.
And half of them are on freerepublic.com.
LOL!
LOL
So who was number 1 trillion?...</sarc>
That's some serious change. More serious than Barack's change we can believe in.
THis only underscores my developing theory that the Internet, or the limitless province of “Cyberia” is somehow provably, measurably bigger and more inclusive that the Universe itself. Or at least the planet Earth, the only know planet to have computers.
If the entire Library of Congress can be fit onto enough CD Roms to fit into a few shoeboxes you could put on the top shelf of ONE of your closets, anything is possible and we need new paradigms.
Onward toward the second half.... HO!!!!
Those who think the web can policed and controlled in any real fashion should take note of that number. To get an idea of the size of the number, if you started counting now, and averaged 3 counts a second, you’d count to a trillion in a mere ten thousand years.
Your theory needs work. The information in a single living cell is staggering when you add the information that exits on the atomic level, let alone the subatomic level. Heisenberg not withstanding, the amount of information contained in a single heavy atom with all it’s myriad probabilities is awe inspiring. Couple that with the idea that a medium sized star can have 10^60 atoms, and there are countless stars...
Nah, the net is big, but the universe is unfathomable.
That’s ~166 pages for every man woman and child on the planet.
HG how the heck are you?
You doing alright?
I don't know but this thread has to be number one trillion and one.
Does that include BO also or wasn’t that counting AH’s?
That’s ~166 pages for every man woman and child on the planet.
Wow..... I was wondering about this number just the other day
Krikees! I’ve got a LOT more surfin to do than I thought!
What % is porn?
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