How Big Is The Internet?
Posted: November 18th, 2010.
Google has an overwhelming presence on the internet and it is very unlikely that any of us remains untouched by their service yet. Even if you do not use their search engine, it is likely that you read blogs on blogspot, watch videos on YouTube, or read emails on Gmail. Despite this massive presence, do you know that Google has only tracked 0.004% of all data that constitutes the internet? Read on
Total number of people using the internet : 1.9 billion
42% of these users are from Asia
Total volume of data on the internet today : 5 million terabytes
Data volume indexed by Google : 200 terabytes (0.004%)
Total number of domain registrations : 193 million
46% of these domains are .com
Where does all this unindexed Google data lie? My assumption is that a good chunk of them must be secured information – email, document attachments,etc. But again, these alone cannot be 99.994% of the internet. What are your thoughts?
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Comments
Comment from rokas
Time May 13, 2011 at 12:18 pm
video transfers probbaly aren`t indexed(youtube, hulu…), and that is a lot of data, plus all the torrent stuff which is even higher

Comment from Simon
Time April 5, 2011 at 2:00 pm
But again, these alone cannot be 99.99[*6*]% of the internet.