Internet search giant Google has doled out one of those interesting little numbers that make keeping track of the Internet so much fun—except, in this case, the number isn’t little at all. According to Google, its systems that spider the Web looking for new content hit a new milestone: one trillion unique URLs on the Web at once.
Google admits that many of those URLs actually point to duplicate content or auto-generated information, but at the same time, the company doesn’t have any real idea how many unique Web pages might be out there: in theory, the total number could be infinite, especially since many applications and services effectively generate “infinite URL spaces” that can keep pounding out new, unique links in response to user requests.
