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Exercise 8: Estimate the size of the Web

How could you work out ...
  • how many pages (vertices) are in the Web?
  • how many hyperlinks (edges) are in the Web?
Google indexes ≅25×109, Bing indexes ≅14×109, ...


What makes it difficult to work out?


One attempt: http://www.worldwidewebsize.com/