A BIG Blog Universe

One way to determine whether or not Blogs are something that demand our attention is to measure the impact blogs are having on the Internet. Let's look at a few interesting facts:

As of 1-25-2005 according to:

• PubSub there are 8,176,954 total blog sources.
• PubSub there are 4,677,333 active blog sources.
• PubSub there are 1,630 new blog items are added per minute.
• Google: You can find 161,000,000 results for the search query "blog".
• Yahoo: You can find 89,500,000 results for the search query "blog".
• MSN: You can find 23,693,689 results for the search query "blog".
• Ask Jeeves: You can find 23,693,689 results for the search query "blog".
• Technorati is tracking 6,403,063 blogs with 791,231,990 links tracked.

I could go on but I think you will agree that people are attracted to Blogs. As a marketer then it seems prudent to understand a Blog's relative impact on your business.

Until next time!