Study shows Google runs 10m websites
Published: 31 Oct 2008 09:40 GMT
Google is operating around 10.5 million websites in October 2008, a 411,000 increase from September, according to statistics released on Thursday by Netcraft, which monitors the software being used to host websites.
The figure comes from monitoring which web-server software is in use to deliver web pages to people's browsers. The top two packages are Apache and Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS), but Google has been catching up.
Netcraft found 182 million websites in total, of which 10.5 million used Google's software. Apache ran 91.5 million of htem, and Microsoft's IIS ran 62.8 million.
That gives Google about 5.7 percent share, according to NetCraft. But the fraction rises higher to 10.6 percent when measuring 'active' sites, which screens out a lot of domains that just have a token web pages with no real content.
Google doesn't talk much about its internal systems, but said in a statement: "The Google web server is a custom-built server that runs on Linux."
Google's sites include several with a profusion of user-generated content, such as Blogger for hosting blogs.
Credit: Study: Google runs more than 10 million Web sites from CNET News
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