FAQ: How Big is the Internet? - The Diigo Meta page

• 04 Apr 09
  

  George Bradford

  There are several companies who attempt to measure the Internet's usage: ClickZ, Cyberatlas.internet.com, Statmarket.com, Nielsen Ratings, Office of the CIA, Mediametrix.com, comScore.com, eMarketer.com, Serverwatch.com, Securityspace.com, and the Computer Industry Almanac. These groups use custom techniques of polling, electronic tallying of server traffic, web server logging, focus group sampling, and other measurement means.

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  • There are several companies who attempt to measure the Internet's usage: ClickZ, Cyberatlas.internet.com, Statmarket.com, Nielsen Ratings, Office of the CIA, Mediametrix.com, comScore.com, eMarketer.com, Serverwatch.com, Securityspace.com, and the Computer Industry Almanac.
  • Internet Usage in One Month, by Country, Oct 2005:
  • United States 180.5 million
  • The World Wide Web, the most popular part of the Internet, started in 1989 with 50 people sharing web pages. Today, at least 500 million people use the Web every week as part of their lives.

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• 12 Sep 08
  

  Cherice Montgomery

  Note the implications re: access, economics, languages which dominate internet use, etc.

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