Google estimates that there are 5 million terabytes of information in the world, and that it might take another 300 years to complete the task of indexing everything.

Eric Schmidt, Google CEO in a talk at the Association of National Advertisers on October 8 2005, estimated that only 2-3% of the world’s info is currently indexed and searchable.

We at GadgetManiac are beginning to think that Google might be serious about their stated goal, which is : “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful“.

Google ETA? 300 years to index the world’s info - CNet, October 8, 2005

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