number of documents in the world wide web?

[Tony Barry]

At 10:02 PM 17/10/95, Jon Knight wrote:
>70GB?  Is that all?  I think someone is seriously underestimating there.
>Considering that some _very_ large databases now have Web front ends, 70GB
>seems a tad on the small side.  After all, I've got 1.5GB of disc space on

We have a single database which isn't public yet with 1,000 gigs - most of
it video.

There are 1000+ library catalogues on the net.  Most would be over 1 gig.
Ours is about 5

Our Art history people have a server with 5 gigs of images.

The figure is _way_ too low.

Tony



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