Eric Schmidt (Google's Chief executive) predicted that it could take 300 years to index all the world's information and make it searchable at the Association of National Advertisers annual conference in Phoenix.
Approximately 5 million terabytes of information are available out there, and only about 170 terabytes have been indexed.
What does it mean - well it means that Google plan to be around for a ... long time, even though there is an obvious flaw in Schmidt's calculation. Technology in 10 years is going to be radically different from what it is now, and capacities of storage and processing the information will increase, and always push the limits of Search. So... it definitely strikes the imagination, but it doesn't really make sense on the paper.
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