Right Now!
Right now, the Internet is growing and at an amazing rate. Thisrate could perhaps be second only to the burgeoning population
of third world countries. Internet use across the planet has
grown at a whopping 146 per cent since 2000 and is continuously
moving upwards.
The main reason for this is that the Internet has now become
an accepted part of the mainstream urban life. The Internet is
used for almost everything imaginable from recreation and
entertainment to learning about rocket science.
However, for every good thing, a million bad ones hit you. The
same has happened with the Internet. The Internet is a huge
resource for everything under the sun; however, not all the data
available is harnessed in the right way or in the right direction.
There is an information overload and within a small time,
you can turn from a learner to a researcher. Another factor is
that all data that is available on the Internet is not true and
should not be accepted at face value, which users normally do.
This has been happening since the time Internet came into
existence. With more and more users getting online everyday, it
has become difficult for searching and sifting through data. Not
all results provided by search engines are the one you are looking
for. Depending on the search engine used, results provided
could be based on which advertiser pays the most. For the statistician
in you, here are a few to gulp.
Research to find out the number of Web sites visited by users
residing in the US showed that the total number of users in a
month was 164,961 out of which, Yahoo!, Time Warner and MSN
were the most-visited domains. The Entertainment category
comprised a total of 128,863 users whose most visited Web sites
were Viacom Online, AOL Entertainment, Yahoo! Music and
Windows Media in that order. And these figures are just for a
month for users surfing the internet in the US! If we start collating
data from other countries, we will definitely achieve a
mind-boggling figure. So where do we go from here?
