Cyveillance.com , a business intelligence gathering firm, attempted to count the pages on the web. They then published a white paper called Sizing the Internet. Using their proprietary Net SapienT Technology to survey the extent and growth of the web, they estimated that there were 2 billion unique, publicly accessible pages on the Internet in July of 2000. Additionally, they found that 7.3 million unique new pages were going on the net each day. In the same paper, Cyveillance predicted that there would be 4 billion publicly available pages on the Internet by early 2001. Cyveillance emphasized that their technology was able to estimate growth, an improvement over just taking a static snapshot. Their results indicted that the Internet was growing dynamically and had yet to peak. Cyveillance's most recent statistics indicate about 6 billion web pages are on the public web.
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