27 May 09 Global Internet Audience Surpasses 1 Billion Visitors

23 Jan 2009

I read this from Comscore website:

Asia-Pacific Region Accounts for 41 Percent of the 1 billion Internet Users
China Ranks as Largest Internet Population in the World.
41 % globarl interenet user are from Asia-Pacific region

Total Worldwide Internet Audience: Regional Breakdown Ranked by Total Unique Visitors (000)* December 2008 Age 15+, Home & Work Locations Source: comScore World Metrix
Region	Total Unique Visitors (000)	Share of Total Worldwide Internet Audience (%)
Worldwide	1,007,730	100.0%
Asia Pacific	416,281	41.3%
Europe	282,651	28.0%
North America	185,109	18.4%
Latin America	74,906	7.4%
Middle East & Africa	48,783	4.8%

* Excludes traffic from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs.

The second billion will be online before we know it, and the third billion will arrive even faster than that, until we have a truly global network of interconnected people and ideas that transcend borders and cultural boundaries.”

Chinese Internet Audience Outranks U.S.

China represented the largest online audience in the world in December 2008 with 180 million Internet users, representing nearly 18 percent of the total worldwide Internet audience, followed by the U.S. (16.2 percent share) and Japan (6.0 percent share)

Top 15 Countries by Internet AudienceRanked by Total Unique Visitors (000)* December 2008 Age 15+, Home & Work Locations Source: comScore World Metrix
Country	Total Unique Visitors (000)	Share of Total Worldwide Internet Audience (%)
Worldwide	1,007,730	100.0%
China	179,710	17.8%
United States	163,300	16.2%
Japan	59,993	6.0%
Germany	36,992	3.7%
United Kingdom	36,664	3.6%
France	34,010	3.4%
India	32,099	3.2%
Russia	28,998	2.9%
Brazil	27,688	2.7%
South Korea	27,254	2.7%
Canada	21,809	2.2%
Italy	20,780	2.1%
Spain	17,893	1.8%
Mexico	12,486	1.2%
Netherlands	11,812	1.2%

* Excludes traffic from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs.

(Source: ComScore w w w . c o m s c o r e . c o m Dec 2008)

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26 May 09 Staggering statistics about Youtube

270 million visits per day
20 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute
3125 visits per second
187500 visits per minute

Tags: Youtube

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26 May 09 What is the buzz about Wolfram Alpha?

Wolfram Alpha (www.wolframalpha.com) is new and interesting online search engine that could beat Google Search at its own game.

Wolfram Alpha does not generate the usual links to information from across the web to answer your search query. Instead, it tries to understand what you’ve asked and presents factual data from a database.

It presents its results in tables, charts, diagrams and other visual means as an answer to your query.

I doubt Wolfram Alpha would make the conventional search engines obsolete since its strength is in crunching factual data . It does not do well with non technical daata such as music, news and hobbies so users looking for such information will not find this search engine userful.

For people who need information such as “Youtube users” , “Population of Cyprus” or “Weather in June 2008″, this search engine would definitely come in very handy and useful

Microsoft is supposed to unveil the new Kumo Search engine at “All Things Digital”organized by Wall Street Journal (WSJ) next week. Will this give us a different perspective or a new experience?

Tags: Future of Search Engines, Search engines, Wolfram Alpha

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