[Corpora-List] amount of text on the web?

[radev at umich.edu]

This is too old. I have seen this one and quoted it a lot.

> 
> Hi,
> 
> The numbers are a bit old but a very good study which investigates how
> much data is on the web is:
> 
> Lyman, Peter and Hal R. Varian (2003)  How much information =E2=80=93 2003.
> Technical report, School of Information Management and Systems,
> University of California at Berkeley.
> 
> http://www2.sims.berkeley.edu/research/projects/how-much-info-2003/
> 
> Regards
> 
> Constantin
> 
> > I am looking for some up to date statistics on the amount of textual
> > data on the web. I have seen varied estimates ranging up to 1
> > Exabyte. I am sure that it is not possible to define precisely what
> > "text on the web" means (do you include email, cached text, local
> > files, "hidden" web, etc).
> >=20
> > Drago
> 
> --=20
> Constantin Orasan <C.Orasan at wlv.ac.uk>
> Lecturer in Computational Linguistics
> Research Group in Computational Linguistics
> http://www.wlv.ac.uk/~in6093/
> University of Wolverhampton
> 
> 


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