How much is a trillion pages?

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.

Comments

[Jon Kepler]

I think your point was that Google is growing. Then, the numbness caused you to do a Google search, which is a slippery slope that I also fall down all too often.

[Tim]

Not to be too anal here.. But you should correct the spelling of "weigh" here, "They would way 3.1 million tons", and use a comma in the middle of 1,000,000,000,000 instead of a period. :)

[shel israel]

Tim,
Thx. Done.

[Loren Feldman]

I am not sure of the point of this. 1938media.com

[shel israel]

JMCMinn: You are not Loren Feldman. If you want to try t stir up trouble, you need to be clever enough to disguiseyour email address.