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.'"

Comments

Longer than expected

[powerpuffgirls]

I always thought 42 years ought to be enough.

300 years?

[RonnyJ]

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

I'd like my house indexed

[obli]

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...

Re:I'd like my house indexed

[jacksonj04]

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

Everybody!

[Slashdiddly]

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

Yeah right..

[Klowner]

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

When I read the summary

[colonslashslash]

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?

Re:i hereby propose

[b100dian]

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

Re:New hardware needed

[spuzzzzzzz]

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