Researchers Scoured Billions of Links and Found the Internet Is Both Expanding and Shrinking [SingularityHub, 29 April 2021]

Title:

Researchers Scoured billions of Links and Found the Internet is Both Expanding and Shrinking

 

Author:

Paul X. McCarthy

 

Published:

SingularityHub, 29 April 2021

https://singularityhub.com/2021/04/29/researchers-scoured-billions-of-links-and-found-the-internet-is-both-expanding-and-shrinking/

From the article:

The online world is continuously expanding—always aggregating more services, more users, and more activity. Last year, the number of websites registered on the “.com” domain surpassed 150,000,000.

 

However, more than a quarter of a century since its first commercial use, the growth of the online world is now slowing down in some key categories.

Also see

McCarthy PX, Gong X, Eghbal S, Falster DS, Rizoiu M-A (28 April 2021) Evolution of diversity and dominance of companies in online activity. PLoS ONE 16(4): e0249993. 

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0249993