Just How Pervasive is Technology in Today’s World? Let’s look at the numbers…
Posted by Erica Vautier | Visited 2855 times, 2 so far today | Currently 2 Comments »
Everyone knows how powerful technology has become … or do we?
We see strangers having conversations over tiny blue tooth head sets; we carry the internet with us on our smart phones; and we let our cars give us directions and make dinner recommendations.
But do you really know how pervasive the virtual world has become?
Do you know how many people are using search engines every day?
Do you know how many blogs are on the world wide web?
Do you know how many videos are actually on YouTube?
Here are some facts that will help you better understand how technology has infiltrated our lives.
Google Search Statistics:
- 2,000,000,000 (two billion) – very rough number of Google searches daily
- 24,400 – number of people employed by Google (December, 2008)
- 68,000,000 – the average number of times people Googled the word Google each month for the last year (source: keyword tool)
Wikipedia Statistics:
- 2,695,205 – the number of articles in English on Wikipedia
- 684,000,000 – the number of visitors to Wikipedia in the last year
- 75,000 – the number of active contributors to Wikipedia
YouTube Statistics:
- 70,000,000 – number of total videos on YouTube (March 2008)
- 200,000 – number of video publishers on YouTube (March 2008)
- 112,486,327 - number of views the most viewed video on YouTube has (January, 2009)
Blogging Statistics:
- 133,000,000 – number of blogs indexed by Technorati since 2002
- 346,000,000 – number of people globally who read blogs (comScore March 2008)
- 77% – percentage of active Internet users who read blogs
Search Engine Statistics:
- 75% - percentage of Americans use search engines on a regular basis
- 56% - percentage of Americans use Search Engines every day
- 40% - percentage of all search engine searches are for local businesses and services
- 54% - percentage of Americans regularly use the internet instead of the phone book to find local services
- 92% - percentage of all local searches will eventually convert into a sale
- 85% - percentage of searchers don’t click on paid links.
- 63% - percentage of links that are naturally displayed at the top of search engines get clicks
Twitter Statistics:
- 1,111,991,000 – number of Tweets to date
- 3,000,000 – number of Tweets/day (March 2008 from TechCrunch)
Facebook:
- 140 – number of new applications added per day
- 150,000,000 – number of active users
- 100 – number of friends the average user has
- 52,000 – number of applications currently available on
Now that you know how many users the virtual world is attracting —
what are you going to do about it??
If you are a Windermere agent and want to learn how you can use the internet to better serve your clients (and even meet new clients) come in to one of our training classes. We have classes each month on Twitter for Real Estate, Email Signatures that Sell, Virtual Farming and loads more!
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Just shoot me an email and we’ll see what we can do!
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Thanks to Adam Singer for sharing these statistics and other great information about social networking!
You can read Adam’s blog at: http://thefuturebuzz.com
Glad you found these interesting Erica
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