Google announced on Friday that the web is big, real big. To be exact Google has just indexed the 1 trillionth URL – an astounding number. When Google first indexed “their web” in 1998 they had 26 million pages, in 2000 that number was 1 billion and in July 2008 it hit 1 trillion.
With 1 trillion URLs how does a website stand apart from the rest? How is that URL found? With more URLs becoming optimized the chances of being found on Google (even though you’re listed on Google) is very slim. What if each one of these URLs were optimized for Google? Search engine optimization would be a dead industry and search would be useless for traffic – unless you’re one of the lucky 10 on the first page.
Eventually half of these URLs will be optimized for Google and when that happens SEO will be useless. What’s next for internet marketing? YouTube? Facebook? Will Google still provide websites with traffic?
In other Google News the company also announced that they are hitting 40 languages to cover the languages read by 98% of Internet users.
[...] me but the exponential growth of the internet is amazing. Combine the billions of photos with the 1 trillion URLs and the web is becoming a very difficult place to get [...]