[Search-l] Interesting Article

[Michael Diederich]

Hi,

On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:

> 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.

Within my company's content management system, we have all market data
about light commercial vehicles - each spider gets about 700.000
pages, with best compression the result is 2.3GB.
For myself, I wrote more than 50.000 usenet postings, each of them is
indexed by google.

I am quite sure, you wrote more than 1000 pages ;)

> 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.

They count unique content. An empty page just counts one.

Kind regards,

Michael 'da didi' Diederich

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