Technorati’s Sifry gives State of the Blogosphere
Posted : March 14, 2005 at 12:59 pm [America/Los_Angeles]
Technorati is now tracking over 7.8 million weblogs, and 937 million links. That’s just about double the number of weblogs tracked in October 2004. In fact, the blogosphere is doubling in size about once every 5 months. It has already done so at this pace four times, which means that in the last 20 months, the blogosphere has increased in size by over 16 times…
We are currently seeing about 30,000 - 40,000 new weblogs being created each day, depending on the day. Compared to the past, this is well over double the rate of change in October, when there were about 15,000 new weblogs created each day. The remarkable growth over the past 3 months can be attributed to the increase in new, mainstream services such as MSN Spaces, and in increases of use of services like Blogger, AOL Journals, and LiveJournal. In addition, services outside the United States have been taking off, including a number of media sites promoting blogging, such as Le Monde in France…
Amazing stuff! However, not everything is as rosy as it sounds. Sifry says that “fake blogs” are on the rise, blogs created for the sole purpose of improving Web sites’ rankings in search engines or to drive traffic to boost advertising revenues.
Oh well..
- Anand
Category: IT and Business Trends