2005 Looks Like Record Year for Net Growth

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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Re:Server trends & commercial blogs

[bersl2]

Its interesting that the percentage of Microsoft powered servers has risen 0.27 from the last statistics, perhaps suggesting that improvements to the latest versions of IIS are increasing use.

And the month before, their change was -0.28%. So what? You need to see an actual trend before you can possibly conclude anything.

New sites I've come across in '05

[Infonaut]

I've only found a couple, but I read both of them frequently now. Of course, these may be of little or no use to anyone else, but I imagine many new sites are like that. Even more so than with the magazine industry, the Web allows for a tremendous level of specialization.

The Huffington Post - a collection of opinionated high-profile bloggers who are already making waves by making the notion of blogs accessible to people outside the "blogosphere"

Bayosphere - citizen journalism in the San Francisco bay area, and noted tech journalist Dan Gillmor's new hangout