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BizReport : Internet : July 28, 2008
Unique URLs, to infinity and beyond
You know a number is big when it takes more keystrokes to represent it numerically than it does in text. It’s the sort of mind-boggling figure that, like trying to envisage the size of the universe, turns most people’s brain to mush.
The Internet has reached that mind-boggling mark. Eight years ago we heralded the indexing of the one billionth webpage. This week Google announced its index had reached the one trillion mark – that’s 1,000,000,000,000 unique URLs.
How accurate is the figure of 1 trillion? Google admits they don’t really know exactly how many webpages there are. “Strictly speaking, the number of pages out there is infinite -- for example, web calendars may have a "next day" link, and we could follow that link forever, each time finding a "new" page,” wrote Jesse Alpert and Nissan Hajaj on the Official Google Blog.
What’s that? Infinity? Yet another astronomical figure to get our heads around.
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