It's a long way from that to everything. Second, there's more and more all the time. We're still looking at exponential growth rates in the publication of the pages out there. That's only going to accelerate as areas outside North America come on stream and go shooting up the exponential curve. Finally, and maybe most importantly, having everything in a database means that we have it in an ordered and structured form.
Card catalogs work in libraries, for example, because they have an agreed upon indexing system.
Databases such as Lexis-Nexus work because they have a controlled vocabulary which sets out the system and which users can learn. On the other hand, crime reporting statistics in most countries are based on lots and lots of subjective judgments. There is no controlled vocabulary that's meaningful. Even if we could get all of the pages into one huge database and even if we could keep up with the additions, I'm not sure it would be possible ever to get agreement on an indexing system and vocabulary in the multitude of languages out there on the Web. At the time, I thought that was a great analogy.