Strange but True
Unbelievably, 100 million searches are made worldwide every day, needing 100 000 Linux servers to cope with demand. The leading search engine company is valued at around $117 billion, which is perhaps why 6.5 billion of us wish we had thought of it first. The domain name was registered in 1997, and the patent for the Google PageRank algorithm runs until 2011. Surely someone will have come up with a credible alternative by then?
28MILLION BLOGS WORLDWIDE
Blogging could be dismissed as one of the web buzz words, but with the current global estimate 28 million, and 75 000 new blogs published every day, the online diary phenomenon is truly astounding. The estimated daily increase, (around 0.25%), is the same as the growth of the global online community, which is around 1.21 billion users.
PAUSE FOR BREATH
Emperor Penguins can hold their breath for 20 minutes, putting David Blaine to shame. Humans are novices at breath-holding under water, (with the world record at 8 minutes and 58 seconds), especially when compared to Crucian carp, a fish closely related to the goldfish, which can live months without oxygen.
