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2005 Looks Like Record Year for Net Growth

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the welcome-aboard dept.

miller60 writes "Netcraft reports that the Internet grew by 2.7 million sites in June, the second-largest gain in the history of its Web Server Survey. With growth of 10 million sites in the first half of the year, 2005 should easily surpass the existing annual growth record of 16 million sites from the dot-com boom year of 2000. The growth of small business web sites, blogs, domain name businesses and online advertising are all cited as factors in the strong gains."

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  1. How many of these... by Silverlancer · · Score: 4, Funny

    The average site, of the 2.7m:

    eN14Rg3 y0Ur m4N1Lh0oD! or|)3r v!46Ra 70|)4Y!

  2. Re:Hmmph by tktk · · Score: 2, Funny
    Being broken and being able to grow in size are not mutually exclusive situations.

    For example: AOL. Broken from birth, IMO.

  3. The rise of the blogs by supercytro · · Score: 5, Funny
    The growth of *snip* blogs *snip* are all cited as factors in the strong gains.

    I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out "Look what I had for breakfast this morning"

    1. Re:The rise of the blogs by geoff43230 · · Score: 2, Funny

      "Luke, I am.. your server!" "No, it's not possible!" "Search your trackback records, you know it to be true..."