A trillion unique URLs on the Web.

[Gregcyber]

Found this bit of news today. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/we-knew-web-was-big.html

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!

SEO anyone?

 

[Rubber Duck]

Yes, but in content terms Balkanisation happened a long time ago. Although some still make a big fuss about the Internet being universally accessible, and by that they generally expect English dot coms, the truth is that most people can only understand a small proportion of what is out there. The English language portion is shrinking daily and will eventually reflect the percentage of first language English Speakers, which is less than 10% of the World Population. You only have to Google Hindi Keywords on a regular basis to see how fast this happening. By my estimates the size of the Hindi internet is doubling every 1-2 months.