Google’s recent OpenSocial and Open Handset Alliance announcements have pushed the company’s market capitalization north of $225,000,000,000. But at the end of the day, Google has two more products in a portfolio of over than 70 others…of which AdWords and AdSense create the bulk of profits, with AdWords being the better of the two. This means that AdWords ads shown in search results drive Google’s earnings, but Google searches access less than 0.02% of the world’s information. Imagine what the other 99.98% is worth.
~10,000,000 Terabytes of Unique Information Produced Last Year
Berkeley’s School of Information Management Systems calculated how much unique information was produced in 1999 and again in 2002. The SIMS studies are regarded as the benchmarks in this arena, measuring the volume of unique data created in the world each year saved to film, disk, optical, and paper. The 1999 study estimated that between 2,132,238 terabytes (”TB”) and 3,212,731 TB of unique information were produced that year. The later study estimated that between 3,416,281 TB and 5,609,121 TB were produced in 2002, so there was a ~19% annual growth rate between ‘99 and ‘02. Assuming the same growth rate to present, somewhere between 6,869,341 TB and 11,278,629 TB of new information were produced in 2006. (link)
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