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Internet holds one trillion web pages | | 2008/07/28 | | Google has revealed a milestone in internet history with the news that its database has recorded a trillion unique web pages.
The original index compiled ten years ago by the search giant found a total of 26 million pages and the billion page mark was achieved only two years later in 2000.
Writing in its blog, Google sources said that its search engineers "stopped in awe" when it dawned on them just how big the web had grown and that the rate of growth continues at several billion every day.
Google software engineers Nissan Hajaj and Jesse Alpert attempted to quantify the staggering numbers by saying: "This graph of one trillion URLs is similar to a map made up of one trillion intersections.
"So multiple times every day, we do the computational equivalent of fully exploring every intersection of every road in the United States."
They went on to suggest that the size of the web was dependent on what users found to be of any practical use. |
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