The unknown Internet

The main goal when designing a site is to have visitors. Lots and lots of them! The more the merrier! But how to make a "fresh" site known to millions? You could try to write an email to all of them, but I assure you that is a waste of time trying to.

The best solution to get known is to be listed on a search engine or somewhere else on the net, where people can see and click on the link to your site. If you manage to get on a search engine you become overnight known. Why? Just because a surfer when is searching for something always it will try a search engine.

Some researchers tried to "measure" how big is the Web. Well... Not with a ruler or something like this :)! They have tried to estimate the number of pages on the Internet, using several methods for that. They have found that it is somewhere between 2 and 3 ExaBytes (1 ExaByte = 1,024 TeraBytes = 1,048,576 GigaBytes = 1,073,741,824 MegaBytes). But that's only the Web that is known: pages listed on search engines, newsgroups etc. What about the rest? Well... That part is the most difficult to "measure" because usually one cannot measure something that is unknown :)!

But the study lets us to think that less than half of the Internet web pages are known. So you might imagine how big it is, this virtual world called Internet!

The simplest conclusion is that by listing your site to a search engine you will have more visitors than half of the Internet :)!