[Search-l] Interesting Article

[Dennis Kubes]

I found it interesting in that we recently passed 1 billion urls that we 
know about.

Dennis

Jimmy Wales wrote:
> Dennis Kubes wrote:
>> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/we-knew-web-was-big.html
> 
> Weird.
> 
> 1 trillion unique web pages.  I am skeptical.  That's 166 pages per 
> person on earth.  Or, if we assume there are 1 billion people online, 
> that's 1,000 pages for every person online.  I don't know about you, but 
> I haven't written 1,000 web pages yet.
> 
> If they are data-driven pages, that's interesting and all, but 
> "counting" pages from a data-driven site is a bit silly.  Even the blog 
> post acknowledges this, by talking about how a calendar site has, 
> theoretically, an infinite number of pages.
> 
> --Jimbo
> 
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