Google say it'll take 300 years to index world's info
Posted by nullbit on October 10, 2005, 5:00 am
At a annual press conference in Phoenix, Google CEO, Eric Schmidt predicts it will take 300 years to accomplish the companies mission statement of organizing the world's information:
"We did a math exercise and the answer was 300 years," Schmidt said in response to an audience question asking for a projection of how long the company's mission [to organize the world's information] will take. "The answer is it's going to be a very long time."
Of the approximately 5 million terabytes of information out in the world, only about 170 terabytes have been indexed, he said earlier during his speech.
What Google defines as information, and how they factor in the constant increase of it into the equation, he didn't say.
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