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August 2, 2009
How big is the Internet?
Lone Wolf pointed to this awesome graphic.
From Australia.com: How big is the Internet?
"THE internet has permeated everything from buying to banking to bonking.
But just how big is it?
Microsoft's Bing team puts the amount of web pages at "over one trillion".
And Google has already indexed more than one trillion discrete web addresses.
There are more addresses than there are people on Earth. The current global population stands at more than 6.7 billion.
That means there are about 150 web addresses per person in the world.
Translated: If you spent just one minute reading every website in existence, you’d be kept busy for 31,000 years. Without any sleep.
Bing was more generous with its estimate for those who take more time to read.
"An average person would need six hundred thousand decades of nonstop reading to read through the information," it said."
Even more stats in the article "How Big is the Internet?"
OK, next time someone says librarians missed an opportunity in cataloguing all websites according to LC or Dewey . . . just stare at them.
Stephen
Posted by stephen at August 2, 2009 9:59 AM
Comments
That seems like an awful lot of addresses per person!
On the other hand, right now most sites are monolingual sites; it'll be downright interesting when we can communicate easily with everyone in the world.
I expect that very, very good automatic translators will be available for email fairly soon.
Posted by: Joseph McDaniel at August 3, 2009 10:54 AM