How many pages are on the internet?

Posted by mikeleeorg on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @01:25AM
from the cnn.com dept.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/09/12/web.index/

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Re:How many pages are on the internet? by yread on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @04:16AM (#2990481)

I always use this query to count how many pages does Google have in the index

http://www.google.nl/search?q=a

It's not the same thing (some studies estimate nonindexed to indexed pages as 500:1) but it says ~27.5B pages.

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Re:How many pages are on the internet? by hcack on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @03:22AM (#2990345)

The article seems to equivocate the web with the internet. If CNN doesn't realize the difference matters, how useful is the rest of their analysis?

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Re:How many pages are on the internet? by mikeleeorg on Tuesday September 13, 2011 @04:11AM (#2990466)

I also question how they would define a single "page," if they really did mean the web. That kind of a metric is so rife with nuances and varieties that I don't see how such research could be carried out meaningfully.

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