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• 11 Jun 12
  

  Dave Mock

  "5 million terabytes of data"

• 04 Nov 11
  

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• 29 May 10
  

  Riccardo P

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• 23 Sep 09
  

  Dante-Gabryell Monson

  Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, the world’s largest index of the Internet, estimated the size at roughly 5 million terabytes of data. That’s over 5 billion gigabytes of data, or 5 trillion megabytes. Schmidt further noted that in its seven years of opera

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• 10 Jul 09
  

  Mark Harding

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• 04 Apr 09
  

  George Bradford

  Assessing the size of the Internet is a somewhat difficult proposition, since it is a distributed body, and no complete index of it exists. What we mean by asking how large the Internet is also plays into how we answer the question. Do we mean how many people use the Internet? How many websites are on the Internet? How many bytes of data are contained on the Internet? How many distinct servers operate on the Internet? How much traffic runs through the Internet per second? All of these different metrics could conceivably be used to address the sheer size of the Internet, but all are very different.

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  • he general answer seems to be that just over a billion people used the Internet in 2008. Of these, about 500 million use the Internet at least once a week, making them more-or-less permanent citizens of the Internet population.
  • estimated the size at roughly 5 million terabytes of data
  • Schmidt further noted that in its seven years of operations, Google has indexed roughly 200 terabytes of that, or .004% of the total size.

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