Google wants to make all information searchable

Posted on Monday, October 10 2005 @ 1:11 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Google's goal is to index all world's information and make it searchable, but this task may take 300 years.
"We did a math exercise and the answer was 300 years," Schmidt said in response to an audience question asking for a projection of how long the company's mission will take. "The answer is it's going to be a very long time."

Of the approximately 5 million terabytes of information out in the world, only about 170 terabytes have been indexed, he said earlier during his speech.
Read on over at CNET.


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