Google URL Index Hits 1 Trillion

mytrip points out news that Google's index of unique URLs has reached a milestone: one trillion. Google's blog provides some more information, noting, "The first Google index in 1998 already had 26 million pages, and by 2000 the Google index reached the one billion mark. Over the last eight years, we've seen a lot of big numbers about how much content is really out there. To keep up with this volume of information, our systems have come a long way since the first set of web data Google processed to answer queries. Back then, we did everything in batches: one workstation could compute the PageRank graph on 26 million pages in a couple of hours, and that set of pages would be used as Google's index for a fixed period of time. Today, Google downloads the web continuously, collecting updated page information and re-processing the entire web-link graph several times per day."

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[ModernGeek]

I don't know about you, but I really think that potato chips don't have to be a by yourself food.

I mean, imagine, you can have a bag of chips in the middle of the table during a football game get together event

Going to a party and asked to bring something? A bag of potato chips does well. It's cheap, and you don't look like a mooch by coming in empty handed.

I really fail to see how your argument in that potato chips are a food for by yourself.