Fwd: Edupage, 15 October 1998
Geoff Voelker (voelker@cs.washington.edu)
Thu, 15 Oct 1998 11:59:57 -0700 (PDT)
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS OPENS COLLECTION OF WEB DATA
As part of its collection, Library of Congress has created 44 tapes that
contain in two terabytes (equivalent in total to about 2,000 copies of the
Encyclopedia Britannica) the entire contents of the World Wide Web in the
months of January and February 1997. Librarian Robert Zich says: "Every
week 1 percent of all Web pages are removed or changed. But some of them
are there just as they were in 1994 when we first started.'' The tapes can
be seen at http://www.alexa.com (AP 13 Oct 98)
MOST-VISITED WEB SITES
According to the Media Matrix market research company, here are the
most-visited Web sites (and number of visitors shown in millions) for
August, the last month tabulated: AOL, 57.8; Yahoo, 27.3; Microsoft, 26.4;
Netscape, 18.7; GeoCities, 16.7; Excite, 14.9; Infoseek, 12.3; Lycos, 11.8;
AltaVista, 9.6; MSN, 9.0. (Investor's Business Daily 14 Oct 98)
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