Google Organizing the World’s Information. Kind Of.
Google’s attempts to organize the world’s information need to scale it up a bit. Last year, 10 million terabytes of data were produced by the world. About 1 thousand of those terabytes were indexed by Google. So about 0.02% of the web is indexed by Google in 2006. Damn.
The cost to index 0.02% of the web: $225 billion
This means that just for 2006, the cost of indexing the entire web would be about $112,500,000,000,000 or $112 trillion dollars.
For context, the total GDP for the world in 2006 was about $48 trillion. So more than double what the world produced would have to be spent in 2006 alone to index the web.
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