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300 Years to Index the World's Information

Posted by Zonk on from the everything-else-to-be-destroyed dept.

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.'"

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  1. Longer than expected by powerpuffgirls · · Score: 5, Funny

    I always thought 42 years ought to be enough.

    1. Re:Longer than expected by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      64 years should be enough for anyone.

  2. New hardware needed by nizo · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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    1. Re:New hardware needed by spuzzzzzzz · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's OK, they use linux. It does infinite loops in 5 seconds.

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  3. 300 years? by RonnyJ · · Score: 5, Funny

    300 years? I'd have thought their other plan would have been a lot quicker.

  4. I'd like my house indexed by obli · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

    1. Re:I'd like my house indexed by jacksonj04 · · Score: 5, Funny

      locate:keys | pocket
      locate:phone | pocket
      locate:underwear -girlfriend | rm

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    2. Re:I'd like my house indexed by WilliamSChips · · Score: 3, Funny
      locate: girlfriend: no such thing for a slashdotter
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  5. Everybody! by Slashdiddly · · Score: 5, Funny

    Please stop creating new information and let Google catch up! You can resume later.

  6. Yeah right.. by Klowner · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's going to take them a hell of a lot longer than that, considering my car keys are always moving.

  7. When I read the summary by colonslashslash · · Score: 5, Funny
    I immediately thought of the Futurama episode - The Why of Fry - where the giant brains build the brainsphere and assimilate all the knowledge in existance, before attempting to destroy the entire universe so no new information can be added.

    Googlesphere anyone?

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  8. 300 Years? Feed Those Pigeons! by Comatose51 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  9. I Call Bullshit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's going to take 300 years to index the grammer and spelling mistakes on Slashdot alone.

  10. Re:i hereby propose by b100dian · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...Google indexed it all in 6 days, and took a rest in the 7th...

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  11. Re:10,000,000 years by eonlabs · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hey, check it out! I'm in the lead!!!! ^_^

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  12. Re:The major question is by Kevin+Mitnick · · Score: 3, Funny

    They're almost there

  13. I thought the answer was 42. by wcrowe · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ask a stupid question...

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