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To: dayglored

“Estimating that is a fairly difficult task, but one person made an estimate not so long ago who can probably be trusted to have a good idea. Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, the world’s largest index of the Internet, estimated the size at roughly 5 million terabytes of data. That’s over 5 billion gigabytes of data, or 5 trillion megabytes. Schmidt further noted that in its seven years of operations, Google has indexed roughly 200 terabytes of that, or .004% of the total size.”

http://www.wisegeek.com/how-big-is-the-internet.htm


39 posted on 03/23/2010 8:41:31 AM PDT by dangerdoc
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To: dangerdoc
Remember, that figure (20TB) was from 1997, 13 years ago.

The web's content has grown by literally orders of magnitude since then.

BTW, being something of a proper-English nut, I hate it when people use the terms "literally" and "order of magnitude" improperly. But the above is indeed true (at least 10^2), so I'll take the grammar risk.

If the google quote is right, 5,000,000,000 TB, then even my statement falls short by many orders of magnitude.

41 posted on 03/23/2010 10:49:36 AM PDT by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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