The Internet is growing faster than expected: Around one trillion web addresses currently exist. Google developers Jesse Alpert and Nissan Hajaj recently wrote this in the company's own blog. In comparison: when the Google index was first created in 1998, the number of unique URLs found was still comparatively modest at 29 million pages. However, the rapid growth of the new medium was already evident in 2000 when the one billion mark was broken. However, the current figures were a surprise even for the Google employees themselves, they admit in their blog entry. They represent growth by a factor of 1,000 in just eight years. According to Alpert and Hajaj, this means that on average around 4,000 new web addresses are added every second, with the size of the Internet reaching a new milestone with a thousand-fold increase over the past eight years. Not all web addresses found were counted for the current measurement: Pages that can be found via several URLs were only counted once.

 The Internet is growing faster than expected: Around one trillion web addresses currently exist. Google developers Jesse Alpert and Nissan Hajaj recently wrote this in the company's own blog. In comparison: when the Google index was first created in 1998, the number of unique URLs found was still comparatively modest at 29 million pages. However, the rapid growth of the new medium was already evident in 2000 when the one billion mark was broken. However, the current figures were a surprise even for the Google employees themselves, they admit in their blog entry. They represent growth by a factor of 1,000 in just eight years. According to Alpert and Hajaj, this means that on average around 4,000 new web addresses are added every second, with the size of the Internet reaching a new milestone with a thousand-fold increase over the past eight years. Not all web addresses found were counted for the current measurement: Pages that can be found via several URLs were only counted once.