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In my fourth ever weblog post - way back in January 2000 - I reported that Inktomi had catalogued 1,000,000,000 unique webpages. Google now searches 3,083,324,652 webpages. And that's a very scary number indeed, boys and girls.

Sheesh, January 2000? That's a hefty whack of time ago. Almost a lifetime in blog years and pratically aeons if you believe the contents of BBC Bill's latest missive (for which Tom and Meg have quite rightly pulled him up on), that is, that no-one's been doing this whole weblog malarkey for more than two years. Worraneejit.

And another thing ... you know you're just positively ancient when you go to edit a Blogger post you did back in 2000, and it won't give you easy access via the drop-down date menus because they only go back as far as January 2001. Right, back to me primordial soup then ...
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