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Google Index Reaches 1 Trillion URLs
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7-26-2008 7:03 PM
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Some evidence for the exponential growth of information.
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/56a86492-9308-4c4a-b1b7-f19ea4c06d2d/83E599F7-0139-47CA-A9E5-20F436E954E9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07/google_index_re.html" href="http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07/google_index_re.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.informationweek.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07/google_index_re.html">Three years after Google (NSDQ: <A class="stockLink" href="http://www.techweb.com/financialCenter/index.jhtml?Account=techweb&Page=QUOTE&Ticker=GOOG" target="_blank">GOOG</A>) declared that its index was <A href="http://battellemedia.com/archives/001889.php" linkindex="92">three times larger</A> than any other search engine and then declined to cite a specific number to support that claim</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07/google_index_re.html">Well, Google has its yardstick in hand once again.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07/google_index_re.html">Two Google engineers on Friday <A href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/we-knew-web-was-big.html" linkindex="93">said</A> that Google's index of the Web now contains 1 trillion unique URLs.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07/google_index_re.html">In 1998, when Google opened for business, it had 26 million URLs.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07/google_index_re.html">By 2000, it had reached 1 billion.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07/google_index_re.html"><A href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/we-wanted-something-special-for-our.html" linkindex="94" set="yes">In 2005</A>, Google claimed it had more than 8 billion Web pages in its index, at least until it took the index count off its home page.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07/google_index_re.html">In 2008, Google's measure of the Web is 1 trillion Web pages.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07/google_index_re.html">So it appears that Google's index is exploding with new Web pages. From 2000 to 2005, Google's index grew by a factor of 8. From 2005 to 2008, it grew by a factor of 125.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07/google_index_re.html"><P>There you have evidence of the information explosion that <A href="http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07/tech_companies.html;jsessionid=1MRP2NE3BT1RGQSNDLPSKH0CJUNN2JVN" linkindex="95" set="yes">Google and other companies are trying to fight</A> through the <A href="http://www.iorgforum.org/" linkindex="96" set="yes">Information Overload Research Group</A>.</p> <P>Maybe.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/83E599F7-0139-47CA-A9E5-20F436E954E9/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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