The Internet is too big already. How is it going to be like in 20 years ?

In the article “How big is the Internet ?” in softpedia.com we can extract that according to Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, the Internet is made up of 5 million terabytes and that Google has succeeded to index only 170 terabytes up until now. The article continues saying tha Google has been indexing information for 7 years and that it would need 300 years to index all there is. Not counting the content that would be generated those 300 years of course.  

So I’m not going to find estimations of what would it be like the Internet in 20 years. There is a pretty tough job there for the future of indexing companies, lots of relevant and rubbish to index, I hope hard disks will get cheaper and cheaper. 

I’m not so interested in the archiving thing though, I’m  mostly interested in the recent data on the disk of the websites we use daily ,  those that hold the  information we need to be up to date, work, buy, travel, communicate, live.

How many websites are there ? According to the same article only from 2005, 17 million have been created. Who would say, I live only with a handful of them, some that I have discovered and some that I have been forced to by media snowballs that have converted them in monster sites. 

Well I’m sure I must be missing some interesting content/ opportunities/ fun in such a large universe of data, but then again who cares, there is too much of too many things in our media consumer brain cells, too many hours on the computer already.

This changed a while ago though, I started to look for a job, through the internet. Suddenly I wanted to know all websites, all job offers in the country, and maybe abroad. When I thought I had all of them a would find another promising website, and another one .. search, sign-in, username, password, set up profiles .. all of them looked like the ones could hold the job for me.

While a broad offer of services is very important and healthy for any economic system something wasn’t working for me there, too much work to find work.

Then I saw that to find the perfect flight or trip could be even worse if I want to make sure I’m getting the best deal, there are countless travel sites, complex to use, highly time consuming, can I go through several sites for hours to  find the best trip ? Too much work, I don’t have the time. 

To how many other areas can we extend this experiences ? Apartment finding, match making, shopping, news .. 

As wonderful as it is to have such variety something seems to me not efficient in the system, there is some disconnection between me and the the ones that make a living of giving me what I want. I would really want to meet them as much as as they want to reach to me, but I’m not sure we’re using the most effective connection.