500 billion pages and counting: How Google rules the web
17 Dec, 2020 04:00 PM
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The Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. Photo / Laura Morton, The New York Times
New York Times
By: Daisuke Wakabayashi
In 2000, just two years after it was founded, Google reached a milestone that would lay the foundation for its dominance over the next 20 years: it became the world's largest search engine, with an
index of more than 1 billion web pages.
The rest of the internet never caught up, and Google's index just kept on getting bigger. Today, it is somewhere between 500 billion and 600 billion web pages, according to estimates.