[Air-l] Re: Air-l digest, Vol 1 #92 - 1 msg

[larry.Fletch]

You might try Neilsen/Netratings  www.nielsennetratings.com/  or Cyberatlas
http://cyberatlas.internet.com, for some numbers.

air-l-request at aoir.org wrote:

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> Today's Topics:
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>    1. number of web pages worldwide? (Charles Ess)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2001 10:13:45 -0500
> From: Charles Ess <cmess at lib.drury.edu>
> To: <air-l at aoir.org>
> Subject: [Air-l] number of web pages worldwide?
> Reply-To: air-l at aoir.org
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> I hope I'm not simply forgetting an earlier thread on this list -
> but are there any reasonably reliable estimates on the number of webpages
> world-wide?
> I've tried a number of search engines on this topic, with surprisingly
> barren results - unless you count the offer from International Data
> Corporation to buy its report, "The Global Market Forecast for Internet
> Usage and Commerce: Based on _Internet Commerce Market Model, Version 5_"
> for a mere $4,500.00.  (This report is cited in several prospectuses -
> prospecti? - filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as claiming
> that the number of worldwide Internet users will grow from 240 million in
> 1999 to 602 million in 2003 and that the number of web pages worldwide will
> grow from approximately 2.1 billion in 1999 to 16.5 billion in 2003.)
>
> I seem to recall a number of 5 billion + cited at aoir 1.0?
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> Thanks in advance,
>
> Charles Ess
> Director, Interdisciplinary Studies Center
> Drury University
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> Home page:  http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html
> Co-chair, CATaC 2002: http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac02/
> "...to be non-violent, we must not wish for anything on this earth which the
> meanest and lowest of human beings cannot have." -- Gandhi
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