100 million sites and counting
02/11/2006 09:34  - (SA)  

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San Francisco - The number of websites in the world has passed 100 million for the first time, internet monitoring company Netcraft said on Wednesday.

The company said that it surveyed 101 435 253 websites in October, up from 97.9 million the previous month.

Altogether more than 27.4 million new sites have been added this year, Netcraft spokesperson Rich Miller said.

The new figures mean that the internet has doubled in size since May 2004, when the survey hit 50 million, with most of the growth driven by blogs and small business websites.

Netcraft said that the US remains the internet champion with 55 million websites, followed by Germany with 15 million, the UK with six million, Canada with three million and France with 2.5 million. - Sapa-dpa

- SAPA

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