wow thats alot of pages and what are terabytes i know that it goes bytes,kigabytes,megabytes,gigabytes but what are terabytes lol thanks alot ricky
when i compared the cost of hardware to cost of electricity and internet conenctions then hardware was like the cheeper part : lets say: 3GB of HD per server 300W in each serwer 30kb per site US$ 0.0986 / kW / h so they would pay daily: ((23 000 000 000 * 30 kB) / (3 GB)) * 300 W * 24 * h * (((US$ 0.0986) / kW) / h) = 155 717.5 U.S. dollars Thats whooping $155K for electricity per day thats 4.67152405 million U.S. dollars per month thats 56.0582886 million U.S. dollars per year According to google finace, goog in 2006 had: Gross Profit $6,379,890,000 so if not counting other expenses (like staff etc) google has: (US$ 6 379 890 000) / (US$ 56 058 286) = 11 381% ROI
Lordo way of searching -ghhhhhhoooo i think was niceiest. mvandemar has fun way too. So for now: *.* -ghhhhhouuu are removed and *** OR *** AND *** **the********* still works. ...Meanwhile in msn and yahoo: on msn: 2,603,346,803 on yahoo: 8,890,000,000 both for **the*********
Ok, now for the virtual energy contained within the data. Someone else can compute... According to this story, a 12GB hard drive holds enough information that if it were written out on paper it would stack as high as the Empire State Building. The Empire State Building is 1,200 feet tall. Paper weighs approximately 30.48lbs/ft, which is about 13.825kg. So, 1TB information = 13,825,000kg, give or take. Given E=mc^2, how much virtual energy would G's server hold if converted to paper and that paper to joules? -Michael
I think of making new thread: "cost of running google-like search engine" becouse i got little of topic with thoes cost estimates what you think?
You mean terabyte (you added an extra "t"). sachy24 is right, it is 1,073,741,824 bytes... however, the hard drive industry, in order to sell more hard drives, has decided to attempt to re-define what a gigabyte is, and rounds off when advertising. Since no one has really called them on it and tried to sue for false advertising, they seem to be getting away with it. Therefore, when you buy a 40GB hard drive, it usually turns out to be in reality around 40,000,000,000 bytes. I'm assuming therefore that the 1TB drives are actually a mere 1 trillion, or 1 thousand billion, or 1 million million, bytes. -Michael
yeah mvandemar, i bought exactly what you write about So called 40GB when it was just 40,000,000 bytes and it turned to be 36GB