Web address total tops one trillion
"The www is such a big place"
Published: 28th July 2008 | Source: iWR |
Web address total tops one trillion
According to the world's largest search engine, web addresses, or more accurately, URL Index has just topped 1 trillion. To put it another way, that's 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 (Non-US and scientific community) URL's. Astounding!
The search giant said that its databases have catalogued the mammoth number by counting URLs, recording each link within a page.
The milestone number comes ten years after Google revealed its first site tally, which recorded some 26 million sites. By 2000, that number had grown to one billion.
The milestone number comes ten years after Google revealed its first site tally, which recorded some 26 million sites. By 2000, that number had grown to one billion.
The figure only applies to unique URL addresses, and not actual web pages - strictly speaking, the number of pages out there is infinite.
As the web has expanded, so have the requirements for indexing. Google could process and rank each of the 26 million pages on the web with a single workstation.
These days, the task of calculating page rank is equal to indexing and ordering every single intersection in the US, multiplied by 50,000.
Today, Google downloads the web continuously, collecting updated page information and re-processing the entire web-link graph several times per day.
These days, the task of calculating page rank is equal to indexing and ordering every single intersection in the US, multiplied by 50,000.
Today, Google downloads the web continuously, collecting updated page information and re-processing the entire web-link graph several times per day.
What a sobering thought.
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Yes the price drop has certainly made them a more attractive option
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Edit: Fixed
Lol, I always forget. :)
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works fine here
Where can you get em for £180?
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Cheapest on the net here (not including postage mind you).
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thats the same as what i payed for my 8800gt less than 12 months ago,so thats pretty good value
Even at the price of £199 that we used in our 4870 review it does quite well:
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