Jul 27th, 2008 | Google survey

Google passes 1 trillion indexed web pages


From google blog: "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. 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 go on explaining there are many more pages, but that they just couldn't scan them all, since pages for such online applications as calendars just go on forever! So the web REALLY has a infinite number of pages.



Google passes 1 trillion indexed web pages


By Ultranerd
44 votes, 263 views , 1 comment
 
 
Poll tags:Google, Pages On The Internet, Web, Indexed Pages On The Internet

 
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Drowlord
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Drowlord
Texas, United States

posted Jul 28th, 2008 at 14:20 CDT

Although google processes a trillion web pages, apparently their content index only catalogs around 40 billion pages -- since the majority of urls contain redundant information.  (i.e. a DNS or web hosting company might "park" millions of domain names, and return a generic advertisment page for billions of urls)
 
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