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Google URL Index Hits 1 Trillion

Posted by Soulskill on from the orders-of-magnitude dept.

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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  1. First Post by txoof · · Score: 0, Redundant

    And about 600,000,000 of those are, "FrIST P0ST!"

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  2. Odd by Tubal-Cain · · Score: 0, Redundant

    So unless there is a screenshot showing the 1,000,000,000,000 site count, Google's index didn't reach that milestone? Even if it now shows 1,000,000,000,001?

  3. Re:How long till.. by Poorcku · · Score: 0, Redundant

    i would rather then type google into google.

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  4. Re:Amazing by neonmonk · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yes, redundancy.