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My, how the baby has grown! It was only about five years ago
(approximately 1994) that the letters www began to enter the public
consciousness. Today there are approximately 5 million* web sites
and somewhere over one billion pages, according to a study by
Inktomi.
The web is dominated by English (over 86% of all pages) and Unix
(Apache serves up 60% of all sites). The Mac has about 1% of the
server market, with WebSTAR accounting for 0.93% of all web
servers. (Yes, your favorite Mac sites are probably served on Unix
machines.)
That puts the Mac ahead of the Dutch. Only about one-half of one
percent of web sites are in Dutch, the language of my
ancestors.
If you look at the 700 or so** Mac-related sites (everything
from MacCentral down
to the smallest hobbyist site), our presence accounts for about
0.15% of all sites - and probably less, since a lot of hobbyist
sites don't have their own domains.
Based on Inktomi's stats, the average site has about 200 pages.
After nearly three years, Low End Mac weighs in at over 1,250 - or
a whopping 0.0001% of the entire World Wide Web.
One the billion-plus pages out there, over 750,000 contain links
to Yahoo, over 250,000 to mp3.com, and nearly 4,000 to pokemon.com,
according to Inktomi (Alta Vista finds over 5,000 links to
pokemon.com). As for Low End Mac, a quick search on Alta Vista yields 1,800 links to
lowendmac.com or lowendmac.net - I'm almost half as popular as
Pokemon!
Again using Alta Vista, we find nearly three million pages with
the word Macintosh - 0.3% of the billion or so pages out there
mention our favorite computer.
We have to remember that most pages on the web are not
about computers. Microsoft only shows us 10.5 million times on the
Alta Vista search engine. Out of the billion or so pages out there,
maybe 2% (20 million) are about personal computing. Maybe. And
probably less.
The Web is truly humongous and still growing. No search engine
can index more than a fraction of the sites out there - between
them all, maybe half the web has been indexed. Maybe. And probably
less. I believe the search engine with the widest database claims
to have indexed 25% of the web.
Still, no matter how you slice it, there's a whole lot of
information out there, especially if you read English. And whether
you use Sherlock to link multiple search engines or use one or two
favorites, you can probably find more information that you'll know
what to do with on just about any subject on the Web.
* Netcraft counts
9.5 million.
** Macinsites currently lists over 700 Mac-related sites.
Dan Knight has been using Macs since 1986,
sold Macs for several years, supported them for many more years, and
has been publishing Low End Mac since April 1997. If you find Dan's articles helpful, please consider making a donation to his tip jar.
Low End Mac Needs Help Moving to Joomla, 10.08.
We've settled on Joomla as the content management system that should work very well for Low End Mac, but we're running stuck with templates.
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If your old Mac is too slow, too noisy, too plain looking, or has too little room for expansion, you might want to mod it.
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