14 DAY TRIAL // How many companies still thought they would be able to make money from the Internet business after the collapse of the dot.com in 2000? I don't know if there is any statistic, but I can only presume they weren't so many.
Luckily, some of them were Google's founders. After tenaciously adding link after link and service after service for seven years, Google can now be considered the Internet's locomotive and the company we should thank for being able to talk now about the new boom in dot.com.
Thousands of sites depend on the ad system devised by Google and hundreds of millions of dollars generated by online ads come from the search engine which is frantically hunted by Yahoo and MSN.
Has anyone computed how many sites have been made and how many have survived only thanks to Google? Probably not! Which reminds me of May, when Google was down for about 45 minutes. It was as if the Internet had suffered a heart attack.
Netcraft's Web Server Survey informs that 2005 represents the most active Internet year ever. So far, and there are still a few months left, 17.5 million new sites have emerged, which breaks the previous 16 million record established in 2000. How many of these are the direct consequence of Google's efforts?
This is why I think it is unfair that a Nobel prize for Internet activity doesn't exist. Google would surely deserve one. Anyways, can you imagine the Internet without Google?
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