Blog search engine Technorati has just released its annual State of the Blogosphere report that shows that the number of blogs continues to grow – almost doubling in a year.
The report indicates that Technorati indexed 133 million blogs since 2002 when the company began. This figure in 2007?s report was just 70 million, which suggests impressive growth.
But is this accurate? How big is the blogosphere?
Between 2006 and 2007, the number of blogs indexed grew from 57 million to 70 million, so where have the extra 63 million blogs come from?
Technorati does not make this clear in its report but the company says that only 1.5 million of these blogs were updated in the last seven days, which suggests that the vast majority of the 133 million blogs are not active (by that metric). But Technorati reports only 5 million of these blogs as ‘active’, defined as having been posted in the space of a month. So on that basis it seems that there are tens of millions of discarded blogs out there in cyber space.
