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I don't understand how you compute that estimate. I doubt you store the history of all searches ever? People don't need a google account to query the engine, o
by jobigoud 6y ago
I don't understand how you compute that estimate.
I doubt you store the history of all searches ever? People don't need a google account to query the engine, others disable history, etc.
Are you saying you still have all searches ever made ever? Because you would need this to say a query hasn't been made before wouldn't you?
- melq 6y agoYou'd only need to store the list of unique searches, but even if that's true and the 15% number is true, that must be a huge amount of data.
- freeone3000 6y agoWhy would you not store every search ever? It's only a few petabytes, and you can find out all sorts of useful info from it.
- simias 6y agoI don't know how they did it but I suspect that it wouldn't be very hard to model the distribution by sampling a few million queries and extrapolate from that.