According to some latest reports from Googleplex, the search database of Google has finally hit a significant mark. It has tipped over the one trillion URL (files/web pages) mark. Two software engineers from Google, Nissan Hajaj and Jesse Alpert from the team of web search infrastructure made this unexpected discovery.

In one of posts at Google’s official blog, the engineers said that they always knew the internet was very big but were quite surprised to see the size of unique URL’s indexed by Google. The systems that process links on the websites to find content had hit a milestone of 1000000000000 URL’s on the website at once. Read the rest of this entry »