Which of the following statements a), b) or c) is false?
A) When Google was launched in 1998, there were approximately 2.4 million websites-truly big data at the time. Today there are now nearly two billion websites (almost a thousandfold increase since 1998).
B) When Google was developing their search engine, they knew that they needed to return search results quickly. The only practical way to do this was to store and index the entire Internet using a clever combination of secondary storage and main memory.
C) Popular computers of that time couldn't hold that amount of data and could not analyze that amount of data fast enough to guarantee prompt search-query responses.
D) All of the above statements are true.

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All the statements provided offer a perspective on the technological landscape and challenges during the early days of Google. Statement A accurately reflects the exponential growth of the internet from millions to billions of websites. Statement B correctly outlines Google's approach to indexing the internet to ensure fast search results, which involved innovative data storage and retrieval techniques. Statement C is true in the context of the time, as the hardware limitations of consumer-grade computers then would not have allowed for the storage or rapid analysis of the vast amount of data on the internet, highlighting the innovation behind Google's approach.

Which of the Following Statements A), B) or C) Is