[Air-l] Worldwide Web Pages

[Danyel Fisher]

Check the slightly-out-of-date, fairly technical article from the WWW9
conference (2000). It made a lot of headlines at the time, as it was a
collaboration between IBM and AltaVista / Compaq.

http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/k53/www9.final/

They estimate only / as many as 56 million "strongly connected" web pages,
which they found by a variety of techniques, including random IP address
checking and web crawls, in a larger set of 200 million pages.

One might question their technique, as Google claims to have indexed over
"1,387,529,000 web pages".

Danyel