Nobody knows. Few care. Go ahead, guess an answer.
A map of a vanishingly small bit of the Internet.
Well, you’re wrong. Its bigger than that. In 2003, scientists at Berkeley officially classified the Internet as ‘ridiculously mega-super insanely no-way-it-can’t-be-that-big’ sized. Since then, it has become too big to measure.
Google has probably found more of it than anybody else – they no longer tell us how many pages are in their database, but it is well over 3 trillion – and yet the odds are that Google has found less than ten percent. And the Internet doubles in size more frequently than once per year.
poq laments the effect on the practice of Googlewhacking. It is much harder to do now. “Titillating cheesemonger” is no longer a succesful Googlewhack. Nor is “solipsistic homunculous”.
