Goal for Brin : Reach 10 billions pages in 2003

This will be Goooooooooogle ;-)

[Allergic]

The article :
[detnews.com...]

[ciml]

Thanks Allergic. Also, a bit of advice from the President of Technology:

"Fundamentally, (you) hope the site gets crawled," said Google co-founder Sergey Brin. "If you get other sites to link to you, you're generally set. Other than that, there's not a lot you can do."

[MeditationMan]

Brin is sooo wrong. I just persuaded a friend to make some changes to his site and it jumped from below #100 to being #1 for a two-word search term. There was no substantial change to the number of sites linking to his site.

Mostly the change involved getting rid of a vanity page and putting some real content on the index page, combined with a good choice of meta title tag text.

I've seen the same thing happen many times with other sites.

[makemetop]

>Mostly the change involved getting rid of a vanity page and putting some real content on the index page, combined with a good choice of meta title tag text.

Isn't that called SEO?

[RBuzz]

What's a vanity page? Is that a splash page?

[Slade]

I think MeditationMan was referring to Brin's comment about "being set." I don't think Brin was referring to having a page 1 listing, but having your site indexed.

Yes, those changes are what we call SEO, or probably in his case just good sense.

[MeditationMan]

Yes, I think you're right that Brin was talking about getting crawled. I'd misread the comment as meaning that links are all you need.

[Allergic]

To reach the 10B pages, it will take a lot of memory! How long the Google Dance will be after that?

[Zapatista]

I think 10 billion pages will put Google into an area of the web searchers don't want to be. The majority of those 7 billion additional pages will undoubtably be junk.

[vitaplease]

Is there any recent data on what percentage of the whole www google thinks to have indexed? and at what percentage the www is growing at the moment?

[WibbleWobble]

Is there any recent data on what percentage of the whole www google thinks to have indexed?

The aforementioned article has the entire www listed at 10 billion pages, and if we're to assume thats somewhere even vaguely near the actual number, google is indexing just under a third - just over 3 billion.

[vitaplease]

Thanks WibbleWobble, next time IŽll really read the article..;)

now for the expected growth..
will more language versions lead to a lot more?

With an average of 20 links or so per page, times 7 billion extra pages thats a lot of votes to make your algo turn up with more accurate results.

Also, 7 billion extra pages as potential advertising fodder..

Better revise my estimated earnings growth potential [webmasterworld.com].;)

[jpavery]

I handle sales calls as well as SE marketing... every sales call I take I punch the persons phone number into Google... 8 out of 10 times I have something about them up while I chat to them on the phone... so I would love to see 10 billion pages. It would help me if 8 went to 10... imagine trying to take details from someone in a crowded bar on a cell phone who has a strong accent and pronounces "3" as "tree"

google - go get 10 billion