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“There are maybe 100 million Web sites out there – that is not many, when you consider that there are billions of people,” considering that the vast majority o
by zemo 13y ago
“There are maybe 100 million Web sites out there – that is not many, when you consider that there are billions of people,”
considering that the vast majority of people just need a listing on an existing network, that's a completely pointless statistic. Yeah, 100 million websites. Ok. There's ten times as many Facebook profiles. Where do you draw the line? Oh, all the Facebook profiles look the same so that doesn't count. What about MySpace profiles? Does that delineate things? What about hostnames? Does that delineate things? What about all the hosts that are just Tumblr sites?
That 100M statistic is useless without a definition for how it's arrived at.
- obviouslygreen 13y agoParticularly if we end up with Facebook, LinkedIn, and similar services continuing to grow and provide facilities for more and more types and volumes of institutions, in which case it may well be a lot more than just profiles on third-party sites that are ignored by things like this. We might gain ten sites that add 10% to the actual size of the non-porn Internet... in which case this would be even less meaningful.