50M Blogs and Counting….
Dave Sifry
has another update on the blogosphere. Technorati is now indexing more
than 50 million blogs, and Sifry says the blogosphere is doubling every 200 days.
He figures Technorati will be indexing 100 million blogs by February. To put this growth in perspective, the blogosphere is expanding by two blogs a second or 175,000 a day. Some interesting tidbits: more than 40% of blog posts are written in Japanese or Chinese, and 8% of new blogs are splogs. Given the blogosphere's hyper-growth, the next growth market could be separating the wheat from the chaff. In other words, new tools need to be developed that help people people find the right blogs at the right time. Maybe it's Google Blog Search, maybe's it's Technorati, maybe it's Sphere or maybe it's TheGoodBlogs (note: I've given TheGoodBlogs some unpaid advisory services). Where there is a problem, there's opportunity….
