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Blogosphere Grows to 50 Million
by Dave Murphy

Technorati, the recognized blog tracking service, reported that there are fifty-one million blogs were in publication as of today. This is one hundred times more blogs than were in existence when the tracking service started, three years ago.

It is estimated, based on Technorati's numbers, that the blogosphere, the global blog space, is doubling in size about every six months.

One hundred and seventy-five thousand blogs are created every day--two every second. These aren't blog entires, but new blogs, each with dozens to thousands of articles. an estimated 1.6 million entries are posted to blogs each day--eighteen per second. These numbers do not account for the comments, trackback pings, and e-mail distributions that follow many of the articles.

While most bloggers post in English--about thirty-nine percent--thirty-one percent ware written in Japanese. Together, these languages comprise seventy percent of the blogosphere.

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08.13.06 @ 06:31 PM ET
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