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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Screenshot.

[Shaitan Apistos]

Or it didn't happen.

Re:Screenshot.

[Shaitan Apistos]

That can be arranged.

How long till..

[loconet]

Once the index reaches a google (or rather a googol), the universe explodes.

Re:How long till..

[rho]

I'm more interested in when Google starts returning relevant results to my queries.

I can't believe that I'm the only one that finds Google's quality of service somewhat below par. I guess they're better than randomly stabbing in the dark, and there certainly isn't any alternative that's obviously better, but Google sure isn't everything they think they are.

I know--stop trying to compete with Wikipedia and cut out Experts-Exchange.com from your search results since their pages don't actually return the information you think they do.

Re:How long till..

[onedotzero]

... and cut out Experts-Exchange.com from your search results since their pages don't actually return the information you think they do.

Perhaps you should try scrolling to the bottom of the page... :)

Re:How long till..

[Anonymous Coward]

...and cut out Experts-Exchange.com from your search results since their pages don't actually return the information you think they do.

If you block cookies from experts-exchange.com you can actually see the answers on any e-e page - after you visit the first time, it normally sets a cookie to not show results next visit, which is how they get Google to index their pages anyway. With cookies from them blocked, you can then see the answers - you just have to scroll 7/8s of the way down the page past all the fake "Please sign up to see this result" boxes.
(First AC post in years... tee hee. :)

Wow, that's a lot of porn.

[Anonymous Coward]

Seriously, since the web is something like 42% porn. (Yes, that is the ultimate answer.) So that's on average, 60-70 pages of each person in the world naked.

1 trillion url's

[jollyreaper]

How many of those are automatically generated rank-spoofers, 80%?

My favorite spoof pages were the ones that randomly substituted search terms into porno stories.

"Yes!" she screamed as he thrust his SAMSUNG CD PLAYER deep into her. "I want you balls-deep in my CHEAP HARD DRIVES!" The smell of DISCOUNT SOFTWARE filled the room.

Re:Amazing

[timmarhy]

i wish they would work on weeding out the crap. anything you google now is infested with cheesy search sites that list other websites and try plaster you with ads. they contribute zero to the web.

Re:Odd

[Anonymous Coward]

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?

The 1,000,000,000,000th page had only one word on it:

"woosh"

Some numbers

[Reality Master 101]

Counts of words:

the: 18.3 billion pages
a: 23.9B
0: 12.7B
1: 25.4B
in: 17.1B
I: 10.2B

I know these numbers aren't exact, but you'd think one of them would be over 100B if Google is really indexing a trillion pages. What's on them? Anyone find any keywords that produce more?

Re:Some numbers

[Shaitan Apistos]

My Hobby

Attributing my sources: http://xkcd.com/369/

In , my humble opinion my usage of "My Hobby" was sufficient attribution, all by itself.

Re:Amazing

[Freaky Spook]

I couldn't agree more.

Many of the clients I support are constantly asking me "Is there a program that does this? or Can you find me a program to do this" etc etc.

I used to be able to just use google to help me get started but these days the top level searches are all those bloody link farms peddling "free" software, even when typing in the word review you come up with link farms that offer no reviews.

No, it didn't.

[aiken_d]

They have identified that there are 1T pages out there, somewhere. They have indexed 40 billion pages. Read the entire Google post. It says it right there.

Bad on Google for the misleading post. Bad on the submitter for not reading the misleading post. Bad on Slashdot for further descending into mindless repetition of mindless submissions of mindless PR announcements.

Re:Try "Live" search

[pagaboy]

Turns out Live.com's market share for today has tripled due to Slashdot users clicking on the above links...

Re:First Post

[Anonymous Coward]

Also, I believe there's about 1.5 million different users.

yeah but if you take out Twitter and all his sock-puppets you'll just be left with 500K unique users...