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Internet Hits 1 Trillion Sites

Google tracks major milestone—150 sites for everyone on the planet

By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff

Posted Jul 26, 2008 7:05 AM CDT

(Newser) – The internet now hosts a staggering 1 trillion unique web sites, according to Google researchers. The million million sites—over 150 for everybody on the planet—are growing by billions of pages a day, PC World reports. Google doesn't index all those pages, but plots them on a complex graph. A theoretical human researcher trying to check a different internet site each second would finish up around the year 3696.

"Our goal always has been to index all the world's data," said Google software engineers. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer, file)

Charting web traffic is like checking every intersection of every road in the US, Google says, only 50,000 times more complex. ((c) Nathan Borror)

Google has detected over 1 trillion unique URLs on the web. ((c) boreritos)

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