I hope I'm not simply forgetting an earlier thread on this list - but are there any reasonably reliable estimates on the number of webpages world-wide? I've tried a number of search engines on this topic, with surprisingly barren results - unless you count the offer from International Data Corporation to buy its report, "The Global Market Forecast for Internet Usage and Commerce: Based on _Internet Commerce Market Model, Version 5_" for a mere $4,500.00. (This report is cited in several prospectuses - prospecti? - filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as claiming that the number of worldwide Internet users will grow from 240 million in 1999 to 602 million in 2003 and that the number of web pages worldwide will grow from approximately 2.1 billion in 1999 to 16.5 billion in 2003.) I seem to recall a number of 5 billion + cited at aoir 1.0? Thanks in advance, Charles Ess Director, Interdisciplinary Studies Center Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 Home page: http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html Co-chair, CATaC 2002: http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/~sudweeks/catac02/ "...to be non-violent, we must not wish for anything on this earth which the meanest and lowest of human beings cannot have." -- Gandhi