A recent article on CNN's website talks about just how many pages are on the web. The article asks, "It seems like an answerable question, right?"
I would think that this information has to be somewhere, its something I have never thought about before and am know curious to find out. It would have to be extremely hard to find an exact number as the internet grows by thousands of pages everyday.
According to Kevin Kelly, founder of Wired Magazine, he thinks there are at least a trillion web pages that exist today. A trillion sounds like a crazy number and it would be real interesting to find out just how many pages there really are out there on the internet.
Thats exactly where the World Wide Web Foundation comes in. They are on a mission to figure out how big the internet is. WIth a $1 million dollar grant Google, they plan on releasing their results, which are going to be called the World WIde Web Index, according to the foundation's CEO, Steve Bratt. The index's website lists that the index will be the first multi-dimensional measure of the web. The say that its going to cover a large number of developed and developing countries and will access the political, economic and social impact on the web. It will also look into the Web connectivity in each country and the infrastructure they have in place to access the Web.
I have no idea about you go about something like this, like I mentioned earlier, there are thousands and thousands of pages added everyday. Its going to be real interesting to hear the numbers the report is going to publish.
Dusty,
ReplyDeleteI had never given this a thought before your post. It is an interesting question to see how many web pages there are. Is this going to be an answerable question though? The people working on the grant may have an impossible endeavor concerning the web pages unless they continually update this information daily. The research they conduct and produce findings on regarding the impact of the internet on the different aspects of the world will be something I will be interested in. I wonder if their findings will support that third world countries are not linked with the rest of the globe.
Valerie
So, I must admit that I am not to concerned about how many pages there are on the internet. I know that there are more than I could ever imagine but I do not want to spend any bit of time trying to figure it out. That is just a personal thing and I am sure other people have a lot of fun knowing the approx amount. I would also say that it is not possible to get an exact number because it is continually growing. Great Blog!
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