It could take 300 years to index all the world's information and make it searchable, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt predicted on Saturday at the Association of National Advertisers annual conference in Phoenix. http://news.com.com/Google+ETA+300+...ds+info/2100-1024_3-5891779.html?tag=nefd.pop
I may not be the chief executive at Google, but I disagree with him 100% He underestimates the power of computer and artificial intelligence technology as well as Nanotech. All the best minds(like Michio Kaku) are saying we will have sentient machines by 2050. I don't think they will have much trouble indexing all the worlds information in 3 months, let alone 300 years.
It depends what he means by "index all the world's information and make it searchable". Is my grandmother's night story is considered a piece of the "world's information"? If yes then the time depends on management and the number of employees to collect them and type them. We just need ten times Bill's wealth. But if he means "making all the books in the world searchable", We only need to aquire their publisher's agreement to put them up since most of them are already in digital format.