Scry · Studies

What a question costs

Research runs against the corpus, end to end: the question, the SQL an agent wrote, the engine-reported timing of every query, and the final canonical run.

How often does the internet say "I wish"?

104.2 million documents out of 50.7 billion contain the phrase — 1 in 487. Counting every utterance and normalizing by text volume: 109.1 million occurrences across ~4.9 trillion tokens, one "I wish" every ~45,000 tokens.

4 h 03 min end to end canonical query 20 m 27 s one pass over 50.7B documents 2026-08-06