4m pages of people confused about confidence intervals?
The news that google, in a spoiler to Microsoft's new search engine, now searches 8,000,000,000 webpages is terrifying.I can remember not so long ago when 700m was a lot. So to increase by 4bn is rather a lot.
But then I thought - hang on, this blog now has every post on a single page. There must be over a 1000 posts. That's 1000 pages, on my own. If everyone adult in Greater London was like me that'd almost be the whole world!
I read somewhere there were 4m blogs. If they're all as proficient (or not) as me then that's 4bn webpages. Co-incidence? I'm not so sure.
It gets worse. Say in the next ten years there are 40m bloggers, all with 10,000 posts, that would be 400bn webpages, 390bn or so would be crazed idiots, ranting on about things they've only heard of this morning, but know they DON'T LIKE.
Is it then any wonder that google bought blogger? The two feed on each other perfectly. But perhaps even Google will not be able to control what it has unleashed. Maybe the more sensible suggestion is to miss out blogger pages altogether.
posted by Matthew @ 11/12/2004 03:58:00 PM
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