Google counts a trillion URLs

Google reported today that its Web index now con­tains a tril­lion unique URLs. On its blog, Google said that this is more a sta­tis­ti­cal mile­stone than any­thing — the com­pany has no way to visit all tril­lion sites to see how many of them offer unique con­tent, for exam­ple, nei­ther should this be taken as a count of Web pages out there in the pipeline. It is what it is, a big num­ber that is pretty impres­sive and, to me, rep­re­sents a kind of unthink­ing and unnec­es­sary waste­ful­ness that’s hard to put into words.

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