The World Wide Web was created as a mechanism for scientists to post text and images, and share them with colleagues. Keep that in mind the next time you visit sites with Flash navigation, embedded videos, sound clips that play when the site loads, and advertising on display.
tracks a variety of website-related issue. Their November 2006 survey showed the number of websites worldwide has doubled from 50 million in May 2004 to over 100 million today.
For 2006, 27.4 million websites have been added. That easily eclipsed the 17 million erected through all of 2005. Compare than to April 1997, when Netcraft recorded the one million website milestone.
"Blogs and small business web sites have driven the explosive growth this year," Netcraft said, "with huge increases at free blogging services at Google and Microsoft." Those would include the Blogger service, which has been testing a new version, and Live Spaces, Microsoft's rebuilt blogging platform.
All of that growth looks good for a particular niche - search engines and paid search ads. Greg Sterling 
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