OR are you saying that our emails are never deleted from their servers? HUMMM
Yeah, they invested money in a huge sever, seperate from their Gmail server, and any email and every word searched on Google is archived on the other server permanently, supposedly as a way of enabling google and unprecedented amount of information as to what people are looking up and interested in etc. It sounds a little bit like a conspiracy-theory so I haven't really bought into it completley... just an interesting thing I've heard.
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also every IM you type
google desktop search also archives AIM messages on your computer.
Text is not a big deal to save, really... its the kind of media like audio, video, audio+video AAAH, and pictures and such. Lemme do a quick calculation since, after all, I am the only one here that lives in math country:
One character(letter, number, pun<tuat!on) takes up one byte.
One kilobyte is 1024 bytes, 1024 letters.
One megabyte is about 1000 kilobytes, exactly 1,048,576 bytes, same number of letters.
One gigabyte is about 1000 megabytes, about 1,000,000 kilobytes. exactly 1,073,741,824 bytes, same number of letters.
A typical computer hard drive these days might be anywhere from 180-200 gb. lets say 190.
an average PERSONAL hard drive can hold 204,010,946,560 letters, or with an average of 7 letters per word, it can hold 34,001,824,426 words. Guessing that the average book is 16,000 words, a typical computer hard drive can hold 2,125,114 books. Thats two milion books in half the size of a typical piece of handheld literature.
Now there IS the argument that you need a special machine to be able to extract this information(computer...), you need sufficent power, yadda yadda, go to hell.
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