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But notice that you've shied away from the climate change claim; the scientific consensus has not gotten softer in the last 20 years, but as recently as a few years ago one party denied the existence of climate change. Even recently a considerable majority of the strong adherents of one particular political party disbelieve that climate change is happening.
See how that works? That's not really what's going on. Sure, G. is incentivized to include pages quickly, but they are also incentivized to produce them accurately, and as the above poster indicates, this is quite a hard problem to solve generally.
A is also incentivized to sell items.
In many cases different algorithms will lead to quantifiably different results. The algorithm changes that work better for the measurement set will be kept and those changes which dont will be discarded. And both A and G do that within different constraints.
C++11 - Cool, it's 2018, guess what: Migrating a codebase as large as Google's from C++11 to C++1x is a bunch of work. And a lot of the C++1x goodies are library additions, available in Abseil <https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp>.
Some estimates put the internet traffic at 2^70 bits per year and growing. For any short sequence of N bits, there are approximately that 2^70 such sequences transmitted per year. Let's assume that, since they are encrypted, they are uniformly distributed. So what is the sequence length for which our p(seen all) = 50%? Seems like 71-bits is about right.
There traffic growth curve is probably ~2x per year, so each year we add 1 more bit each year. The sum of all internet traffic for all time, at present, is therefore about 1 more bit.
So ~73 bits.
Math checks out.