Do you have any idea which company dominates the web it comes to online statistics? Is it really Facebook or Google? If that is what you think, you are misled. According to recent figures from comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, Microsoft is the true winner. Microsoft has captured 15% of the time spent online in September alone. This percentage is based on a global scale. 15% is equivalent to 3.9billion hours. Out of the total 27 billion hours spent online, this figure is already very substantial.

Do you ever wonder how much data is present in the World Wide Web? Maybe you’ll be shocked to know that its 487 billion gigabytes, nearly 500 billion GB. That’s a lot, right?! Imagine having a 19 billion pieces of fully-loaded Blu-ray DVDs, that how big Internet data is today. Another comparison that would make you visualize are printed and bound books stacked from the Earth to Pluto. And think of that stack stretching 10 times. And that doesn’t stop there. As more and more people takes an interest in the Internet, this amount of data is still expected to grow double every 18 months, that’s according to a study done by research consultancy IDC and sponsor EMC.

What have you been keying in on the Yahoo search? For sure celebrities is one of them; Britney Spears perhaps? If that is so, you helped in making her No. 1 on Yahoo’s list of top 10 overall searches! 2008 is a great year for Britney. As we have observed she’s making a huge progress and the change in her is just great so, it’s natural for people to be interested in knowing what the latest about her is. FYI, she’s been Yahoo’s No. 1 for seven years now.

Next to Britney is WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) which has been on the No. 2 spot for three years in a row. No. 3 placer is new President-elect Barack Obama. It’s really interesting to see that from being a relative new comer on the national scene, he became the new president-elect. Taker of No. 4 spot is Miley Cyrus. She’s a new entry to the Yahoo list. No. 5 is the multi-player role-playing game RuneScape.

Here’s the rest of Yahoo’s top 10 list:

Everything is good in moderation, especially the internet! I mean had it not been for the internet you could not be reading this article. But in all honesty 5 hours a day spent online is a bit of a waste! You may be wondering who exactly spends such excessive time on the internet. Well the answer is 38% of the Saudi Arabian population according to a recent study!

If you are an internet addict, you’re probably aware that two of the closely competing networking sites are Facebook and MySpace. And maybe you are wondering which of them is the most popular. The latest survey done by metrics firm ComScore show that Facebook’s popularity has surpassed MySpace. For the month of May, Facebook had 123.9 million unique visitors while MySpace only had 114.6. Moreover, Facebook had more page views than MySpace. The former had 50.6 billion while the latter had 45.6 billion only.

Back in April Facebook went ahead of MySpace by only a hair’s breadth. Unfortunately, MySpace was not able to recover. Maybe it will be downhill for them from now on. What do you think?

If you have ever been to Egypt you will have been stunned by the sheer number of people who have Broadband which is quite an expensive service everywhere! However, we Egyptians are caring beings and believe in loving our neighbours so households share internet connections and split the cost. This socially acceptable ‘fad’ was recently proven by the ‘Egypt Households Telecoms and Media Survey Report 2008'. The survey basically showed that nearly 1 million households in Egypt have access to ADSL which is great news for a somewhat ‘developing company’.

There is no stopping the rise of the popularity of the Internet. It is true as evidenced by the facts and figure gathered by the Internet research firm comScore. Their research findings show that in the month of May alone the total online population worldwide is 772 million – a figure that is about 16% of the world inhabitants. This number has been collated from the different search engines – Google being the top grosser claiming 70% of the total Internet user. In the date collected by comScore the three best sites are Google, Microsoft and Yahoo – each of them having more than 20 visits per visitor.

694 million is the number of people around the world over the age of 15 who use the internet according to Newsweek Magazine.

Here is an estimated number of blogs around the world through different blogging services:

- Google’s Blogger service: 8 million blog
- MSN Spaces: 5 million blog
- Six Apart Live Journal/ TypePad/ MT: 8.2 million
- WordPress: 250,000
- Other DIY (Do-it-yourself): 100,000
- Other hosted (US): 9 million

According to Web metrics firms, Firefox web browser owns between 8.6 and 11.5 percent of the global browser market.

Africa represents only about 3% of the world's internet users.

Google is expanding rapidly. Google staff now totals nearly 4,200, almost double the size of a year ago!

53,289,340 Active domain names and 34,035,078 Deleted domain names on the Internet Statistic as of today according to the Whois Source.