Het United States Internet Council heeft een onderzoek gedaan naar de grootte en het gebruik van internet. Volgens het verslag bestaat het web momenteel uit 2 miljard pagina's, die door zo'n 304 miljoen mensen gelezen worden. Hiervan is zo'n 156 miljoen Engels sprekend vanaf de geboorte:
That's 2 billion pages, as the Web's content has doubled in size this year alone. Plus, the Internet is no longer strictly a U.S.-centric phenomenon, a new study finds.
The United States Internet Council, an industry-funded public policy group, estimated that 304 million people worldwide used the Internet regularly as of March, most of them now from outside North America. The survey found that just over half, or 51.3 percent, of Internet users were native English speakers. But it did not cite a previous figure to illustrate a trend.[break]Ook is gebleken dat steeds meer internetters dit doen van buiten Amerika. Meer dan de helft de degenen die zich op het web bevinden komen niet uit de USA:[/break]"As more users come online in Europe and Asia as well as the rest of the world, the Internet is becoming multicultural, multilingual and multipolar," it said in a report titled State of the Internet 2000.
English-speaking users in North America continue to be the largest single block of the online population. But the combined total from Europe and Asia now outnumbers them, according to the study, carried out for the council by International Technology and Trade Associates, a consulting company that cited a wide range of sources.
Lees de samenvatting van ZDNet, die door ChiLLeR gesubmit werd, hier.
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