Google search engineers hit the new milestone of 1 trillion unique URLs, a number which is growing at “several billion per day”. Even with ignoring duplicates, and assuming a lot of pages get shelved as unimportant (endless calendar day pages, empty or forgotten pages, etc.), that’s a lot of content. That’s 166 URLs for each person on the planet, and 10 for each star in the galaxy (assuming 100 billion stars). So, quite a lot.
While we’re pushing out big numbers, here are some more to goggle at… They’re not sourced (some of them are estimated, some might be wildly out – but all were spotted on fairly reputable sites).
- 1.4 billion internet users
- 50 billion videos viewed online in February
- 3.3 billion searches on Baidu per month
- 500 million videos on YouTube
- 4.1 billion photos on Facebook
- 2 billion images on Flickr
- 533 million results for “insurance” search
- 10 million articles on Wikipedia
- 3 billion songs sold on iTunes
- 100 million MySpace members
- 10 million songs scrobbled on last.fm a day
Pretty overwhelming, huh.
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