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In the November 2009 survey, Netcraft received responses from 233,636,281 sites. So that means there are total 233 million websites running on the world wide web.

Can you imagine How much information that would provide? Have you ever imagined how much information you consume everyday? Well Researchers from the University of California, San Diego, have produced the latest in a series of reports entitled "How Much Information?"

The goal of the work is to provide some estimate of the amount of content that a typical US consumer goes through in a given year, in this case 2008. When expressed in terms of raw bytes, the report's authors estimate a staggering 3.6 zettabytes, which works out to 34GB a day per consumer.

Compared to 1980 figures, the number of bytes has increased by 350 percent. Very interesting article here at arstechnica


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