Archive for January, 2010

Unknown search engine pretend to be the biggest

Unknown search engine cuil.com states that have index size of 127,000,000,000 (127 billions) pages.
Excerpt from cuil’s about page:
Welcome to Cuil—the world’s biggest search engine. The Internet has grown. We think it’s time search did too.
The Internet has grown exponentially in the last fifteen years but search engines have not kept up—until now. Cuil searches more [...]

Indexed size of global web

Indexed size of global web
or Size of WWW
or Total Number of Indexed Pages
All base numbers is taken from http://www.worldwidewebsize.com/
By Yahoo:  52,000,000,000 (52 billions).
By Google: 15,000,000,000 (15 billions).
By Bing: 3.5,000,000,000 (3,5 billions).
And last — some unknown search engine that pretend to be  the biggest.
By Cuil: 127,000,000,000 (127 billions).

2008 online advertising market size

$27,000,000,000.

Internet saves media

Translated from here.
According to the World Association of Publishers periodic media (WAN), much of the world’s media in some way affected by the crisis. Thus, 38% of respondents reported that their incomes have fallen by at least 20% and a similar pattern to continue in 2010. This decline in print advertising fees, revenue from [...]

How to edit firefox configuration settings

Type in address bar about:config and press Enter.

TOP COUNTRIES WITH THE HIGHEST INTERNET PENETRATION RATE

First of all to congratulate the winners – fellows Aborigines Falkland Islands.

It is surprising Belarusians – quiet high level of penetration.
Telling a probably a combination of tyranny and lowstandard of living on one side with a relatively high quality of secondary education and high common level of education in the country with another.
USA not [...]

Top hi-tech developed countries

This analyze is based on google analytics map overlay of visitors of my very hi-tech blog .
Understandable even for hedgehog that statistics are incomplete. But some view it gives.
The most developed country is USA — number of visitors is taken as 100%. Rest of countries are related to USA.
Country                               [...]

Another stone in the hornet’s nest of java haters

Below is Google Software Engineer job description.

Morality in the narrow sense: you can’t be GOOGLE software engineer without knowledge of Java.
Morality in the broad sense: you can’t be GOOD software engineer without knowledge of Java.