Flow My Thoughts, The IT Professor Said

Billions and Billions...

http://news.com.com/2100-1024_3-5069571.html?tag=fd_top

While this article is dedicated to comparing the Google and Overture Net serarch engines, the "incidental" fact that the databases contain Web documents in numbers exceeding 3 billion gives some concept of how the Web has grown. Since the standard take on the size of the Web is that search estimates underestimate its size [in part because of issues involving the "invisible Web", and in part because some Web pages are set up to prevent indexing in the first place], there is more to the iceberg than one might think.

On the other hand, answering the question of how many of those 3 billion documents are of any use is something else again....