According to Wikipedia - "Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products,and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program Google has been estimated to run over one million servers in data centers around the world,and process over one billion search requests and about twenty-four petabytes of user-generated data every day." ( For those wondering what a Petabyte is its 10 raised to the power of 15 bytes , or one million Gigabytes or a 1000 Terabytes! Tremendous. To get a sense of scale - The 4 experiments in the Large Hadron Collider produce about 15 petabytes of data PER YEAR. )
