Google's Bigger Index

WebGangsta writes "Google Inc. today announced it expanded the breadth of its web index to more than 6 billion items. This innovation represents a milestone for Internet users, enabling quick and easy access to the world's largest collection of online information."

Comments

It could be much smaller ;-)

[ChaoticChaos]

...yeah, but it would only be 2 billion items if all the Janet Jackson stuff was removed. ;-)

Re:It could be much smaller ;-)

[Lev13than]

...yeah, but it would only be 2 billion items if all the Janet Jackson stuff was removed. ;-)

And if they'd just stop indexing blogs, the entire Internet would fit onto a CD.

Re:It could be much smaller ;-)

[kilonad]

But... but... this company called AOL keeps shipping me the entire internet on a CD all the time!

Re:It could be much smaller ;-)

[fredrikj]

And if they'd just stop indexing blogs, the entire Internet would fit onto a CD.

You could fit the blogs on a CD as well. Just store a template blog and include a program to generate random variations, e.g. "my dog has fluffy fur today" vs "my cat has fluffy fur today".

Technically, this would be "lossy compression" (since some data is deprecated but no one will notice the difference). Though on the other hand, it could even be argued that removing blogs entirely would be a form of "lossless compression".

Re:It could be much smaller ;-)

[kevin_ka]

And if all the pron was removed there would be only 1 website left and that would be a petition to bring back the porn

Re:It could be much smaller ;-)

[lavaface]

Interesting? Interesting?!? Great jeebus, the legends are true. The swarms of AOL subscribers have discovered Slashdot and are slowly assimilating OSDN into AOL Time Warner!

Re:It could be much smaller ;-)

[jdavidb]

Work has already been done on this. Have you seen the Markov blogger on use Perl? Soon all bloggers will be replaced with a Perl script.

Re:It could be much smaller ;-)

[double-oh three]

No, two websites; Fark would be hosting the petition, and Slashdot would be redirecting all internet traffic there.

Re:It could be much smaller ;-)

[fredrikj]

Slashdot Story Generator

6 Billion

[use_compress]

There will soon be more web pages indexed in Google than people. I, for one, welcome our HTML overlords!

Google, over 6 billion served.

[Anonymous Coward]

They beat McDonalds.

Milestone

[Doesn't_Comment_Code]

Google Inc. today announced it expanded the breadth of its web index to more than 6 billion items.

One for every man, woman, and child. Sounds exactly like the thinking of a machine to me.

Related?

[SkiddyRowe]

In a related story Booble's index just expanded to a Double-D.

Little boys across the globe will have sore arms tommorrow.

Re:Here's hoping

[Rotting]

Perhaps these are the pesky folks behind the Half Life 2 source code theft and the Windows source code theft and now their search engine includes LANs.

Re:how many?

[sensei_brandon]

exactly. I searched for "diode wave shaper" one time and got three hits -- all for porn. I had no idea diodes were so fap-worthy.

A company spokesman added...

[Boing]

...that remarkably, a full five-sixths of the content consisted of different versions of the Google logo.

Thanks

[KillerHamster]

so much for the link to Google, I never would have found it otherwise.

Re:Heh

[Xtraneous]

The pigeons that the use in the Pigeon Ranking are preparing to attack

Re:And let's hope it stays that way!

[Walkiry]

I have Google as my number one source of information on the internet.

Whatever happened to The Onion?

Re:Heh

[Doesn't_Comment_Code]

Anyone else find it funny that Google has around one item for every man woman and child on earth?

With my luck, I bet my one item is a page with prescription drugs and weightloss suplements at bargain prices.

I hope your item is better.

Re:Heh

[Anonymous Coward]

You must be a humanist. As a geek, I found it funny that Google has around one item for every bit on a CD-ROM.

but...

[Savatte]

have they beaten Ron Jeremy?

Re:4.28 billion web pages...

[JediTrainer]

That reminds me of an old Dilbert (paraphrasing here, forgive the small errors):

PHB: We've run out of accounting codes! We can't do anything without one!

Dilbert: Why not upgrade the system to accept larger codes?

PHB: To do that we'd need a budget and an accounting code

Dilbert: Why can't we reuse a code from an old finished project?

PHB: Strangely enough, we've never finished a project.

Re:Heh

[Anonymous Coward]

One page for every man woman and child. That sounds exactly like the thinking of a machine to me.

Re:Heh

[rylin]

My page was taken offline by the .cx registry

Moving Goalposts

[Dorf on Perl]

I had only read through 1,673,233,497 items by last Friday, and now this. I'll never catch up now! Thanks for your "service," Google.

Thanks alot editors!

[Innova]

How could you link directly to Google on the front page of slashdot? Couldn't you have used a mirror? Do you realize what will happen if Google gets slashdotted? The entire internet infrastructure will come to a screeching halt! You insensitive clods!

/sarcasm

Re:how many?

[Anonymous Coward]

So, you're into diode wave shapers, heh? You kinky bastard!

slashdotted

[cubyrop]

could someone plz mirror google.com? looks like it got /.'ed

The real innovation is...

[warpSpeed]

When http://pr0n.google.com/ goes live

Innovation?

[bkhl]

Since when is making something bigger innovation?

I'm just going to go innovate some more tea into my mug.

Re:Already been done, sort of

[devilspgd]

Without the dupes it's just not the kind of slashdot I think I could associate myself with on a regular basiss.

Re:Betty's bunnies have fluffy fur today

[johnlcallaway]

Oh .. that link was just too funny.

Some people just have way too much time on their hands. (This from a guy who spent 6 hours last night building a new computer from scratch [have to get those cables just right you know], and will probably spend another 6 tonight trying to get WinBloze to load.)

You searched for

[bonaldi]

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God, google sucks nowadays.

URL Please

[rixstep]

What's Google's URL please.

I can't find it on Google.