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Google – It will take 300 years to index world’s data
Saturday, Oct. 8 2005 | Author: AlexTanGoogle CEO, Eric Schmidt, says that it will take them 300 years to index the world’s information. Google has indexed 170 terabytes of data, and they estimate that there is a total of 5 million terabytes of information in the world. So Google has been around for 7 years, and they’ve done 0.000034% of the work meaning that the other 99.999966% will be done over the next 293 years? They obviously have a lot of faith in technology.
Sorry for getting the facts wrong before.
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7 Responses for "Google – It will take 300 years to index world’s data"
October 9th, 2005 at 12:25 am
1Its says:
“Of the approximately 5 million terabytes of information out in the world, only about 170 terabytes have been indexed, he said earlier during his speech”
5 Million, not 5000..
October 9th, 2005 at 12:26 am
2Sorry, not 500 that should be.
October 9th, 2005 at 12:39 am
3This time you have gone too far.. :) You said 500 million, whereas their estimate is only 5 million…
October 9th, 2005 at 1:01 am
4You’re fucking up! haha! That’s okay, it’s a saturday night, we’re all wasted.
October 9th, 2005 at 8:11 am
5Actually, the reason it will take so long is that most of the world’s knowledge is stored in people’s brains – which means hunting down every last man, woman and child and extracting their brains.
October 9th, 2005 at 11:59 am
65 million existing terabytes. They’ll also have to index all the new stuff that’s being created as they index.
October 10th, 2005 at 2:49 am
7170 out of 5 million terabytes is 0.0034%, not 0.000034%.
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