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It’s funny. Our main site gets lots of queries every month for the phrases “how big is the internet” “How old is the Internet” & “How quickly is the Internet growing” You can also substitute “web” for Internet, and we get the queries.

I was just catching up on postings and came across one from Ask Jeeves.

I remember compiling data a few years ago, sometime in 2001 or 2002 (to be only slightly more precise), and at that time, the best data suggested that 10 million new pages were being added to the Internet every day. That meant about 3.65 billion new web pages / year, not including newsgroup postings, forum postings, or images. It made sense.

Ask Jeeves’ data shows how obsolete that number is. In June 2005, they received almost 2 million new articles per day from blogs alone, and because they are catching up on the backlog, they added 100 million blog article in June alone.

How fast is the web growing? Fast. Very fast.

While writing my last post I was curious how the market would react to Google’s record breaking news. Would shares surge again, or would they follow Yahoo’s path, and decline. Today, Google shares fell 3.4 percent on Friday after the search giant suggested a seasonal slump in its international business could pressure third-quarter results.

Google is now valued at 38 times revenue, Yahoo at 37 times revenue. Heady valuations indeed. What’s surprising to me, is that at least one brokerage firm has apparently reset Google’s share price target at $400.00 / share. that’s about 33% more than they trade for at present.