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300 Years to Index the World's Information
Kasracer writes "At the Association of National Advertisers annual conference, Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt suggested that it would take 300 years for them to index all of the world's information. From the article: 'We did a math exercise and the answer was 300 years,' Schmidt said in response to an audience question asking for a projection of how long the company's mission will take. 'The answer is it's going to be a very long time.'"
I always thought 42 years ought to be enough.
Would this include indexing the Ultimate Question? Because last time I checked, that would take 10,000,000 years in and of itself.
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The hardest part will be developing the hardware that is able to recursively index the Google data itself an infinite number of times.
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300 years? I'd have thought their other plan would have been a lot quicker.
How long until Google decides that your house is information? Just imagine an army of small robot spiders invading your home every night, registering the position, name and contents of every single object you own, making it searchable from house.google.com. Unless you nail a robots.txt to your front door, that is...
*holds envelope to his head*
"42"
*opens envelope and reads*
"What is the number of duplicate posts that will say 'I thought it was 42'."
Please stop creating new information and let Google catch up! You can resume later.
It's going to take them a hell of a lot longer than that, considering my car keys are always moving.
Googlesphere anyone?
She's built like a steak house, but she handles like a bistro....
Obviously they're not feeding those pigeons enough. Time to buy some quality feeds Google. Maybe even slip in some uppers every now and then. If all else fails, maybe it's time to consider the parrot upgrade. They're a lot more expensive but their index/poop ratio is much better.
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It's going to take 300 years to index the grammer and spelling mistakes on Slashdot alone.
The blogs of thirteen-year-old girls are examples of the recently discovered negative information. If more young girls can be encouraged to write this will actually reduce Google's workload.
Well, it's just Zeno's paradox. Let's say it takes them 300 years to index all today's information, then another 150 to index all the new infomation, then another 75... By 2605, all information to that point will have been indexed by Google. Then they can start indexing the FUTURE.
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...Google indexed it all in 6 days, and took a rest in the 7th...
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Also, can someone explain to me how you even approach something like this from a mathematical model point of view? How did the 170 terrabyte number even come up? Aren't there different definitions for what constitutes 'information?' Also, who the hell spent their 20% on this problem when there was integral code for vital programs to write, such as Google Suggest and Google Suggest in Japanese?
PLEASE, SOMEONE EXPLAIN BEFORE I GO OFF INTO MORE OF A FLAMEBAIT RANT!
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Uh oh...someone needs to visit Applied Cryogenics and knock 700 years off Fry's timer then.
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He didn't clarify that 299 years of that was indexing all the Internet porn sites.
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