In computer news this week, 09/25/2002

Things to know about the internet today ...part 2

The internet is accessed by 228 million English speaking people; about 40% of the internet population. There are 339 million non-english speaking people on the internet, about 60 %.

Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish are the largest non-english languages, in that order.

The largest drop in internet traffic is annually recorded during the football Superbowl.

One estimate says that only 38% of internet businesses are profitable. I told you those tv internet goldmine ads were a fluke ...

One currnet statistic shows there are 162 million internet hosts worldwide.

Icann.org - the reigning internet authority, was founded in 1998 after world wide users complained that the original American company - Network Solutions - had an unfair monopoly on the internet. Icann is composed of an international panel of officers, and their job is to administer the web, assign domains, and create new domains names. Icann has become a very criticized organization, and is watched over by ICANNWatch.org - designed to be a news and comment forum for people interested in questions about the doing of ICANN.org.

Some companies consider the internet still to be an electronic frontier, and are issuing their own domain names. You really have to be careful when you register a domain name that it is a legal name and you are dealing with an authorized registrar.

Nearly 46 million Americans accessed the Web at work during August 2002, representing a 17 percent increase over the same time last year, Nielsen//NetRatings revealed.

According to hour-by-hour analysis from Nielsen//NetRatings, online usage at-work begins at 8 a.m. and tailors off around 4 p.m., with peak hours between 10 a.m. and 12 p.m., and overall usage climbing to 86 percent. In contrast, the primetime hours of surfing at-home increase in the afternoon and hit a peak at 8 p.m., reaching 58 percent of Web usage.

Measurement analysis indicated that female office workers were the primary drivers of traffic growth, as the group grew 23 percent year-over-year to 20.4 million.

Men still outnumber women online, but their growth rate is slower. The number of men logging onto the Internet from work rose 12 percent since last August, increasing to nearly 25.3 million surfers. Men also spent more time, accessed more sessions and viewed more pages than women. Men averaged nearly 31 hours time spent in August, as compared to nearly 27 hours for female office workers..

"While women have long ago surpassed men in online usage at-home, historically the at-work Web population continues to be dominated by male surfers," says Nielsen//NetRatings

And to culminate these impressive growth statistics of the internet as a cultural, business and educational phenomenom, here are the Lycos search engine top 13 searches for this week , in ascending order:

13 Pamela Anderson Fantasy Football Lord of the rings Las Vegas Vin Diesel NFL Anna Kournikova Elvis Presley Brittney Spears Tatoos Kazaa Dragonball - and at #1 West Nile Virus.

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