Google reaches 8 billion web pages (801 hits)
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Submitted by goleafsgo (View user info) at 2004-11-27 23:52:57 EST
NEWS FLASH: GOOGLE IS NOW SEARCHING OVER EIGHT BILLION WEB PAGES!
Actually, right now its more like 8,058,044,651 pages, but who's counting? Actually, a lot of people. It's hard to believe that there are over 8 billion pages out there that one search engine can go through in less than 0.2 of a second. For instance, if I search "Ubersite" in Google I get 364,000 hits in 0.07 seconds. The first of which is this site. How long do you think it would take to get to the last hit? Page ten only brings me to #100 and there are over 350,000 hits!
Google is so popular that people have actually made up 'Google games'. You can 'Google fight' (www.googlefight.com) where you 'fight' two words against each other. Whichever comes back with more hits wins. They even have a hall of fame for the best fights. An example of one of these fights is Teddy vs. Bear. Bear won by 33 million sites.
Another 'Google game' is Googlewhack (www.googlewhack.com). Here you try to find a combination of two words that only have 1 hit on google. With the number of web pages that the engine searches being increased daily this is becoming much harder. Just try to find one web page out of over 8 billion that has your specific combination of words. For example: 'Intergalactic ubersite' comes back with 101 hits. Now try getting that down to one.
You want to know whats REALLY amazing? The pages searched number hasn't increased at all, not even by one page while I was writing this. Give it five minutes.
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Submitted by goleafsgo (user info) at 2004-12-02 22:37:30 EST (#)
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5 days later and google hasn't started searching any more web sites - they seem to be stuck where they are
Submitted by Iago (user info) at 2004-11-28 09:24:35 EST (#)
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Googlefight?
I bet you blend in with a blank sheet of A4.
Submitted by shitfuck (user info) at 2004-11-28 03:17:41 EST (#)
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You should start jerking off more often.
Submitted by FilthyAssistant (user info) at 2004-11-28 00:52:13 EST (#)
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I pity you.
Submitted by Zoidberg (user info) at 2004-11-28 00:47:40 EST (#)
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if you like google so much why dont you go suck its cock
Submitted by Death_Metal_Dude (user info) at 2004-11-28 00:08:14 EST (#)
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you can't spell "goleafsgo" without "google"
I smell a conspiracy
involving writing dumb posts
Submitted by Kre8rix (user info) at 2004-11-28 00:01:31 EST (#)
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Didn't this happen about about a month ago?
I mean I....wait a minute...water runs?
Submitted by CoachMagirk27 (user info) at 2004-11-27 23:59:55 EST (#)
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i found this kind of intriging
at last something new to do while im bored as hell
Submitted by professorfuckface (user info) at 2004-11-27 23:58:34 EST (#)
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I ONLY LOGGED ONTO THE INTERWEB TO DOWNLOAD SOME FATBOY SLIM CONCERT BOOTLEGS BUT YOU TURNED MY LIFE AROUND. PLEASE GIVE ME YOUR POSTAL ADDRESS SO THAT I MAY THANK YOU IN THE FORM OF A BUNCH OF SCENTED FLOWERS PICKED FRESH FROM THE ORCHID.
Submitted by FatTony (user info) at 2004-11-27 23:57:57 EST (#)
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In other news, 8.1 million homes have running water.
Submitted by goleafsgo (user info) at 2004-11-27 23:57:33 EST (#)
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no, i don't work for google, i just find it interesting how one search engine has become so popular
Submitted by professorfuckface (user info) at 2004-11-27 23:56:10 EST (#)
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INTRIGUING
THANKYOU FOR PROVIDING THIS ENTERTAINING POST YOU TRUELY ARE A KING AMONG MENZ
Submitted by bart (user info) at 2004-11-27 23:54:33 EST (#)
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Do you work for Google?
Submitted by polyamorousaj (user info) at 2004-11-27 23:54:03 EST (#)
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NEWS FLASH: I DON'T CARE