XGhozt 410 Posted July 26, 2008 Google URL Index Hits 1 Trillion We've known it for a long time: the web is big. The first Google index in 1998 already had 26 million pages, and by 2000 the Google index reached the one billion mark. Over the last eight years, we've seen a lot of big numbers about how much content is really out there. Recently, even our search engineers stopped in awe about just how big the web is these days -- when our systems that process links on the web to find new content hit a milestone: 1 trillion (as in 1,000,000,000,000) unique URLs on the web at once! How do we find all those pages? We start at a set of well-connected initial pages and follow each of their links to new pages. Then we follow the links on those new pages to even more pages and so on, until we have a huge list of links. In fact, we found even more than 1 trillion individual links, but not all of them lead to unique web pages. Many pages have multiple URLs with exactly the same content or URLs that are auto-generated copies of each other. Even after removing those exact duplicates, we saw a trillion unique URLs, and the number of individual web pages out there is growing by several billion pages per day. So how many unique pages does the web really contain? We don't know; we don't have time to look at them all! :-) 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. We're not doing that, obviously, since there would be little benefit to you. But this example shows that the size of the web really depends on your definition of what's a useful page, and there is no exact answer. We don't index every one of those trillion pages -- many of them are similar to each other, or represent auto-generated content similar to the calendar example that isn't very useful to searchers. But we're proud to have the most comprehensive index of any search engine, and our goal always has been to index all the world's data. To keep up with this volume of information, our systems have come a long way since the first set of web data Google processed to answer queries. Back then, we did everything in batches: one workstation could compute the PageRank graph on 26 million pages in a couple of hours, and that set of pages would be used as Google's index for a fixed period of time. Today, Google downloads the web continuously, collecting updated page information and re-processing the entire web-link graph several times per day. This graph of one trillion URLs is similar to a map made up of one trillion intersections. So multiple times every day, we do the computational equivalent of fully exploring every intersection of every road in the United States. Except it'd be a map about 50,000 times as big as the U.S., with 50,000 times as many roads and intersections. As you can see, our distributed infrastructure allows applications to efficiently traverse a link graph with many trillions of connections, or quickly sort petabytes of data, just to prepare to answer the most important question: your next Google search. Source(s): http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/we-...eb-was-big.html Share this post Link to post
Vailence 30 Posted July 26, 2008 It was gonna happen sooner or later. I think google deserve a global pat on the back for its good work, and a manipulative boost to sway above microsoft and flop on the bitch. , ownzd Share this post Link to post
OucH 0 Posted July 26, 2008 Haha. That is true Vailence. Only a matter of time before they hit 2, and continue to completely flatten Msn's search engine. Share this post Link to post
Major Zhuinden 128 Posted July 26, 2008 The only problem is that many of them are just advertisment sites full o shit. Share this post Link to post
Zar 696 Posted August 13, 2008 Holy crap 1 trillion? LOL and I bet 50% of them are porn sites! Share this post Link to post
Union1 33 Posted August 14, 2008 Your absolutely wrong 99.999999% of the sites are porn site. Just they arnt shown. download malware bell and the restrictions of porn sites will be removed Share this post Link to post
Crafterz 31 Posted August 15, 2008 Imagine how long it would take to update 1 trillion pages stored in google. How long it would take to re-index them. As in 26 million in a few hours, but its 1 trillion, and new pages are created every day. Share this post Link to post