Web reaches 100 million websites
 

Kinda funny article on CNN.com....

(CNN) -- Are your Web surfing fingers getting tired?

There may be a reason. Netcraft, an Internet monitoring company that has tracked Web growth since 1995, says a mammoth milestone was reached during the month of October.

"There are now 100 million Web sites with domain names and content on them," said Netcraft's Rich Miller. (Watch as the Web gave birth to the virtual self -- 2:44)

"Within that, there are some that are busy and updated more often, and that represents the active sites, which are at about 47 or 48 million," he said.

Bloggers, small businesses, and simplicity have combined to create the dramatic growth of sites, much of it just in the past two years.

"The bottom line is it's much easier to create a Web site nowadays, and it's much easier to make money with a Web site," said Miller.

Netcraft uses the domain name system to identify Web sites, check how many of them are in a particular location, such as what operating system and Web server software they're running, and then publishes its information in a monthly report.

There were just 18,000 Web sites when Netcraft, based in Bath, England, began keeping track in August of 1995. It took until May of 2004 to reach the 50 million milestone; then only 30 more months to hit 100 million, late in the month of October 2006.

Read the full article here...
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/interne...tes/index.html

Nice to know I'm in the top 4000 of that 100 millions ;)

i participate in that 100 mill with 0.000000001%

how the fuck do they count this??

Believe it or not they do it all with one Asian man and an abacus. His name is Chi.

I'm surprised it's only 100M. Given the number of site autogenerators out there along with subdomains, I was expecting at least 5x more.

No wonder it's loading so fucking slow :/ ...

Wow that's allot of crappy websites. :1orglaugh

The more saturated it gets the less effective I find it. If a site isn't updated every 90 days it should get deleted.

nice information

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great visual

Wow great achievment:thumbsup

my alexa ranking of 211,115 looks quite good now :)

crazy.....100millio sites ;D

Ouch! Who's the poor bastard who had to count them all? LOL

:Oh crap

Haha.

Matt

doesn't sound a lot of sites to me...

is that all there is?

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Hahaha... awesome.

100 million? hard to believe

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:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh I was going to say mexicans but this is much better!

does that mean the internet is full?

100 meeeeeleeeioonnn!!!!!!

i just added another one... 100.000.001 :)

Thanks for the article and info.

Unbelievable internet penetration...:)

and the avg money made is 25 bucks lol

Nice, the more sites, the more people the more $$$$$$$$$

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Can't believe I missed this. Brilliant.

Internet is full!! Buy your spots here, $500 to epass, info after payment! :thumbsup