Tony Mitchell
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We Knew The Web Was Big...
6th August 2008 08:54
I was wondering how much more bad news professionals wanted to read? So rather than talk about the credit crunch, the recession or whether the insolvency statistics are going to get worse, apropos of nothing, I want to talk about The Official Google Blog which I was reading yesterday. I was attracted by their opening line –“We’ve known it for a long time: the web is big”.
It appears, according to the Google system that processes links on the web to find new content, that a new mile stone was hit the other day: it found 1 trillion (as in 1,000,000,000,000) unique URLs on the web at once and the number of individual web pages out there is growing by several billion pages per day. Now that is big!
And that’s just the sites, imagine how many pages there are – even Google admits it doesn’t have time to count them although, strictly speaking, it is infinite if you take into account web calendars that may have a “next day” link.
These numbers put into perspective how important it is to have a web presence when doing business.
I was wondering how I could weave any of these very useful facts and figures into my appearance (if you can “appear” on radio) on tomorrow’s Drivetime with Vic Minett on BBC Coventry and Warwickshire radio, talking about the economy and what interest rates are going to do this week? It is surely less gloomy and certainly more interesting.
