253 million at the latest count, according to the government agency China Internet Network Information Centre. Impressively, 214 million of those are broadband users - but the biggest growth is mobile phone access. Apparently, the “Great Firewall of China” is still blocking or rendering unusable large numbers of sites, so any strategy looking to address [...]
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China has more internet users than any other country
Published September 26th, 2008 in Statistics and Web. 0 Comments… is how much video is uploaded to Google’s Youtube, according to their official blog post today. And that’s an “exponentially growing” statistic they believe. That’s 18720 hours a day, or 780 days every day. Still with me? It’s a lot.
Of course, there will be a long tail of this stuff which is never seen by [...]
Reality Mining
Published July 31st, 2008 in Profiling, Statistics, data mining and geotargeting. 0 CommentsWhat does your cell phone know about you? Well, a fair bit according to researchers at MIT. For instance, they claim they can divine, among other things:
- how happy and productive you are
- your social status
- your social group
Fundamentally this is just an extension of any form of data mining - take a large amount [...]
Google search engineers hit the new milestone of 1 trillion unique URLs, a number which is growing at “several billion per day”. Even with ignoring duplicates, and assuming a lot of pages get shelved as unimportant (endless calendar day pages, empty or forgotten pages, etc.), that’s a lot of content. That’s 166 URLs for each person on the [...]
