Searching 8,058,044,651 Pages!

[ThePentiumGuy]

Random thought of the day:

Google is searching 8,058,044,651 pages! :O!

 

8 BILLION! Jeez! 10 years ago this wasn't possible. 10 years from now it's supposed to go into the trillions.

 

Can google be stopped?

 

Sry, I was just really bored.

 

I have a feelin google's gonna turn into a monopoly. Fine they have a search engine. Now they've got email. They even bought KEYHOLE ! Soon I heard they'll have an IM. :O. They've moved into the 1337 h4xx0rz community. What will they do next?

 

... btw another random thought: McDonalds has served more food than the amount of pages that google searches through.

 

Sry again, really bored today and I haven't seen a post here in quite some time.

 

-The Pentium Guy

[Denaes]

The amazing thing is that Google searches through that many pages and still gives you thousands of results in like 3 seconds.

 

I don't know if it's because gmail is beta and not too busy, but so far it slams other email in speed and usability!

 

Only reason why I havn't dropped yahoo is that GMail won't let you add .Zip files as attachments and I sometimes need to email myself VB projects/code or files to get to work or home.

 

In this case is a monopoly even bad? They provide a service that others cannot even touch. It's not based on "preference" or "style" like an OS might be (no matter how much Windows might be superier to Mac, others will still prefer something else and visa versa). It's a friggin search page.

 

I think there is a difference between MS horning in on others ideas and leveraging their own software over others and Google providing the same service as every other search engine, plus more and faster.

 

I think I'm going to leave the US if they start deciding people are monopolies because they do something better than others can.

[ThePentiumGuy]

Rofl, yeah we're too strict on EVERYTHING. I just realized, Froogle is getting wicked popular too. It's taking over sites like www.dealtime.com and www.mysimon.com and stuff like that :D. Gotta love google!

[neodammer]

Id imagine google's servers to be top of line and very numerous. The scripting on the engine must be at or near perfection to be this fast.