How much of the world’s collective intelligence in online and indexable by Google?
Google’s goal is to index all of the world’s information.
How close do you think they are?
Certainly they’re doing a really good job of indexing a lot of the text information on the Web. But there’s a lot of other information on the Web that’s in the format of audio, video, etc. that Google doesn’t do a very good of indexing.
Then there’s all of the information/intelligence that never makes it to the Web. All of the college classes that aren’t being recorded. All of the corporate training sessions. All the one-on-one conversations where wisdom is exchanged.
So what % of all of the information/intelligence in the world does Google have?
10%?
1%
0.1%
Less?!
2 Comments
- 1. Ranjit Mathoda said:
Great question! I’d estimate less than 0.1%, but I’ve posted a more thorough reply at http://mathoda.com/archives/205
posted April 27th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
- 2. Kim Bach said:
Almost none, because very few are using the web, openly and free, for anything that could be defined as “collective intelligence”. So the information is online, which is great news, now we need to lobby the politicians
posted May 24th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
