Crazy Stats: Interesting Yet Hardly Web 2.0
January 12, 2009
I think the clever wordsmiths who snagged the Web 2.0 meme are blowing smoke. Losing money is not a business model. Nevertheless, I enjoyed this list of Web 2.0 statistics. I think the word “statistics” as used by TheFutureBuzz.com means “unverifiable factoids”. The article is “49 Amazing Social Media, Web 2.0, and Internet Stats” is here. Three of the unsubstantiated factoids that caught my attention were:
- Google’s one trillion urls. Impossible to verify. Ranks with Amazon’s assertions about the number of objects managed in its AWS service. More PR fluff than factual bedrock.
- The 70 million videos on Google. Nice assertion, no verification.
- 133 million Web logs indexed by Technorati. Yep, but how many have been orphaned. The total number of Web logs remains a mystery.
If you love these types of factoids, TheFutureBuzz.com article is for you.
Stephen Arnold, January 12, 2009
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