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What happened with the Internet in 2009? How many websites were added? How many emails were sent? How many Internet users were there? This post will answer all of those questions and many more. Prepare for information overload, but in a good way. We have used a wide variety of sources from around the Web. A full list of source references is available at the bottom of the post for those interested. We here at Pingdom also did some additional calculations to get even more numbers to show you. Email * 90 trillion - The number of emails sent on the Internet in 2009. * 247 billion - Average number of email messages per day. * 1.4 billion - The number of email users worldwide. * 100 million - New email users since the year before. * 81% - The percentage of emails that were spam. * 92% - Peak spam levels late in the year. * 24% - Increase in spam since last year. * 200 billion - The number of spam emails per day (assuming 81% are spam). Websites * 234 million - The number of websites as of De...

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Kakle is the new search engine that is making a stir in the Net. It is elegant, rather understated in presentation and is getting ready to take on giants such as Google, Yahoo and MSN . As soon as a search query is given, Kakle.com gives several options to the user. For instance, if you type Emerson, Kakle asks you instantly whether you are looking for Emerson Cement or Ralph Waldo Emerson. It also gives the thumbnails of pages alongside the results. It scores one over other search engines by offering free email with 5 GB storage. Even Gmail offers only 3 GB storage. Kakle also has messenger, chat, games, forums, blogs, and audio, video uploads. It has been in beta version for the last six months and will soon be spruced up further.

LONDON: “Blog”, “netiquette”, “cookie” and “wiki” have been voted among the most irritating words spawned by the Internet, according to the results of a poll published recently. Topping the list of words most likely to make web users “wince, shudder or want to bang your head on the keyboard” was folksonomy, a term for a web classification system. “Blogosphere” , the collective name for blogs or online journals, was second; “blog” itself was third; “netiquette”, or Internet etiquette, came fourth and “blook”, a book based on a blog, was fifth. “Cookie” , a file sent to a user’s computer after they visit a website, came in ninth, while “wiki” , a collaborative website edited by its readers, was tenth. The other two words in the top ten are "Vlog" and " social networking ." British pollsters YouGov questioned 2,091 adults earlier this month for the poll commissioned by the Lulu Blooker Prize, a literary award for books, which released the results in a statement. Earlie...

From the front lines of Iraq and Afghanistan to at home, soldiers blogging about military life are under the watchful eye of some of their own. A Virginia-based operation, the Army Web Risk Assessment Cell, monitors official and unofficial blogs and other websites for anything that may compromise security. The team scans for official documents, personal contact information and pictures of weapons or entrances to camps. In some cases, that information can be detrimental, said Lt. Col. Stephen Warnock, team leader and battalion commander of a Manassas-based Virginia National Guard unit working on the operation. In one incident, a blogger was describing his duties as a guard, providing pictures of his post and discussing how to exploit its vulnerabilities. Other soldiers posted photos of an Army weapons system that was damaged by enemy attack, and another showed personal information that could have endangered his family. “We are a nation at war,” Warnock said by email. “The less the enemy...