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Google's Bigger Index

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the how-much-of-it-is-crap dept.

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."

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  1. It could be much smaller ;-) by ChaoticChaos · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    1. Re:It could be much smaller ;-) by Lev13than · · Score: 5, Funny

      ...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.

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    2. Re:It could be much smaller ;-) by kilonad · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    3. Re:It could be much smaller ;-) by fredrikj · · Score: 5, Funny

      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".

    4. Re:It could be much smaller ;-) by kevin_ka · · Score: 5, Funny

      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

    5. Re:It could be much smaller ;-) by lavaface · · Score: 4, Funny

      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!

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    6. Re:It could be much smaller ;-) by jdavidb · · Score: 4, Funny

      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.

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    7. Re:It could be much smaller ;-) by double-oh+three · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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  2. Google, over 6 billion served. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    They beat McDonalds.

  3. Related? by SkiddyRowe · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    Little boys across the globe will have sore arms tommorrow.

  4. Re:how many? by sensei_brandon · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  5. A company spokesman added... by Boing · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  6. Thanks by KillerHamster · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  7. Re:Heh by Xtraneous · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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  8. Re:Heh by Doesn't_Comment_Code · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  9. but... by Savatte · · Score: 5, Funny

    have they beaten Ron Jeremy?

  10. Re:4.28 billion web pages... by JediTrainer · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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    You can accomplish anything you set your mind to. The impossible just takes a little longer.
  11. Re:Heh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  12. Re:Heh by rylin · · Score: 5, Funny

    My page was taken offline by the .cx registry

  13. Re:how many? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

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

  14. The real innovation is... by warpSpeed · · Score: 4, Funny
    When http://pr0n.google.com/ goes live