Bing takes 10% share of US search market

It has been reported that search engine, Bing, has now taken 10% share of the US search market, denting Google's dominance.

2009 internet... in numbers

I thought the following internet statistics for 2009 were interesting:-

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 December 2009.
47 million - Added websites in 2009.

Domain names

81.8 million - .COM domain names at the end of 2009.
12.3 million - .NET domain names at the end of 2009.
7.8 million - .ORG domain names at the end of 2009.
76.3 million - The number of country code top-level domains (e.g. .CN, .UK, .DE, etc.).
187 million - The number of domain names across all top-level domains (October 2009).
8% - The increase in domain names since the year before.

Internet users

1.73 billion - internet users worldwide (September 2009).
18% - Increase in internet users since the previous year.
738,257,230 - internet users in Asia.
418,029,796 - internet users in Europe.
252,908,000 - internet users in North America
179,031,479 - internet users in Latin America / Caribbean.
67,371,700 - internet users in Africa.
57,425,046 - internet users in the Middle East.
20,970,490 - internet users in Oceania / Australia.

Web browsers

62.7% - Internet Explorer
24.6% - Firefox
4.6% - Chrome
4.5% - Safari
2.4% - Opera
1.2% - Other


Source: Website stats from Netcraft. Domain name stats from Verisign and Webhosting.info. Internet user stats from Internet World Stats. Web browser stats from Net Applications. Email stats from Radicati Group. Spam stats from McAfee.

Spam "mastermind" fined £116,000

A 26-year old man has been fined $210,000 (£116,000) by an Australian court after admitting his involvement in the international network that could send 10 billion e-mails a day.

Lance Atkinson, a New Zealander living on the Gold Coast, Australia, was accused of being the mastermind of the world's largest known "spam gang", along with his brother, Shane.
 
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