Google has announced it now crawls one trillion internet pages, up from 28 million a decade ago. That's one of those numbers brings a numbness to my forehead. I know it's more followers than Scoble claims he has on Twitter, but I still could not fathom how much a trillion (1,000,000,000,000) really is.
So I went to Google and typed it in. There on the first page of results I learned:
- 1 trillion seconds equals 31,546 years
- $1 trillion is the "high side" estimate for the cost of the Iraqi war according to Lawrence Lindsey, a white house economic adviser
- 1 trillion pennies spread over the ground would fill 89 thousand acres. They would weigh 3.1 million tons
- Is the combined wealth of 1,000 billionaires.
So what's my point? I have absolutely no idea.
