Is 16 gigabytes as much as The Google database?
It's about one-fifty-five-thousandth as much as The Google database
The amount of The Google database is about 870,000 gigabytes.
(2006 figures) (web crawler data; compressed)
As of 2006, the Google search engine database contained 870,000 gigabytes of compressed data about the web pages it had indexed while crawling the web. Each day, Google processes over one billion search requests.
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