Multiple choice general knowledge

How long it would take to do a manual search of Google's 3 billion Web pages, at one minute a page?

  1. 300 years

  2. 2 years

  3. 5,707 years

  4. 25567 years
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C Correct answer
Explanation

3 billion pages at one minute per page equals 3 billion minutes. Converting to years: 3,000,000,000 ÷ (60 × 24 × 365.25) ≈ 5,707 years. This shows the scale of Google's index.

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