In the middle of June, 2008, Mozilla released version 3 of their popular Firefox web browser. At the time they sought to break the world record for the most number of downloads in 24 hours which they succeeded in doing by achieving in excess of 8 million downloads. We blogged about that at the time and it got us thinking about some other really big numbers related to the Internet.
Mozilla estimate there are 140 million Firefox users and Firefox has about a 20% market share so (according to my 'O' Level maths) the browser market world wide must stand at around 700 million. A counter on Mozilla's site also shows that Firefox has been downloaded over 600 million times in total.
However, things don't stand still. China is now the biggest Internet-using country in the world with more than 253 million users, overtaking the USA with 223 million users who had held the number one spot since records began. Experts predict that China's user count may hit 500 million by 2012.
So just how big is the Internet? Well, if anyone should know the answer to that question then it's probably Google, the worlds most popular search engine. Google announced this week that they now search and index over 1 trillion web pages - that's 1,000,000,000,000 which is a really big number!
That's more web pages than people, so if you don't yet have a web page now would be a really good time to start planning one before they sell out.
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