Internet mushrooms to more than 100 million websites
Online journals known as blogs and virtual shops for small businesses have pushed the number of websites past the 100-million mark, an Internet monitoring firm reported.
A survey by Britain-based Netcraft determined that the number of websites on the Internet climbed from 97.9 million in October to slightly more than 101 million in November.
The 100-million-site milestone “caps an extraordinary year,” Netcraft concluded.
The number of websites on the Internet has already grown by 27.4 million in 2006, compared with the 17 million sites added in all of 2005, according to Netcraft.
“Blogs and small business websites have driven the explosive growth this year, with huge increases at free blogging services at Google and Microsoft,” Netcraft said in a survey report.
