Different Twist on Tracking Blogosphere Growth
Today, AskJeeves.com announced that Bloglines currently has over 500,000,000 blog and news feed articles being tracked in their database. That is pretty impressive, especially since they have doubled their data count since January.
Add to this the fact that they are indexing roughly 2 - 2.7 million new entries per day and you start to get a great picture of not just how many blogs there are out there, but also how high the usage rate is.
Bloglines is an RSS aggregation and tracking tool, and one of the most popular since they are web based and free so they seem to be a pretty valid source for data such as this.
The caveat to keep in mind is that I'm not sure if or how they track blogs NOT being subscribed to by a user in their system nor how effective they are at indexing multilingual blogs in Asia or other countries. Although they are one of the most popular aggregation tools out there, this number of daily adds could be even higher dependant on what percentage of the market they are covering.
