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Internet Growth in 2005 Sets Record
miller60 writes "Netcraft's Web Server Survey reports that a large gain in web sites in October makes 2005 the strongest year ever for Internet growth. The web has added 17.5 million sites so far this year, eclipsing the previous annual best of 16 million during the dot-com boom in 2000. And that's with two months left in the year. Is this growth for real? Web hosts targeting the small business market (like Yahoo Small Business and Go Daddy) report that business is booming, suggesting that web-wary local businesses are finally going online. But some of the the growth is likely due to domain name business models, with speculators buying large numbers of domain and placing advertising on them."
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...strongest year for Interweb growth.
Please stop APK.. you're only hurting yourself.
I better get out there and register LeftHandedElvisImpersonator.com before someone else does!!!!!!!
"As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue." ~A. Einstein
17.4 million of them are on Cogent, so we can't get to them.
> Viagra: Results 1 - 10 of about 12,800,000 for viagra . (0.07 seconds)
Great, now you've posted the word "viagra" on slashdot. Now google will come up with 12,800,001 hits for viagra. Thanks a lot.
There are 0x40000000 types of people: those who understand 32-bit IEEE 754 floating point, and those who don't.
My God man! Why aren't you charging people for this brilliant research?
Look what else Google tells us:
- 149 people got bitten by a vampire
- 20,900 people smell good
- There are 4,730,000 websites dedicated to pickes
You had better patent this research method before someone else beats you to it. But behold - I think 279 people have already done this!
The pornography industry has posted record gains for the 10th straight year in a row.
One analyst commented "The price of stocks are swelling rapidly. It's a wonder the engorged industry hasn't peaked. I've been waiting for things to deflate, but they just keep rising, straight as an arrow."
"There are more important things than stopping terrorism. Upholding the Constitution is one of them." - Ars Forumer.
The sites that prey on spelling mistakes and the like are just annoying ...
Learn from my mistake, Dick's Sporting Goods is not dicks.com
You mean robots.txt?
It may be because of jerks like me: Domain names are so cheap that sometimes I register things like williamshatnerrules.com for no reason except that the domain is funny. One day I might put some content at all the domains I have.
Did I mention that I own williamshatnerrules.com? 'Cause I own williamshatnerrules.com!