Web Reaches 100 Million Sites (With Teacher's Comments)

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Web Reaches 100 Million Sites (With Teacher's Comments)

I found this article to be quite interesting. We all know there is a lot of websites out there, but 100 million is a tough number to imagine. It is really amazing that after taking until 2004 to reach 50 million it only took a little over 2 years to reach double that. [statements of facts here. Who said it reach 50 million two years, why not 15 million in 20 years? You need a citation reference here.] I guess I would be a little bit late in the game to make the conclusion that the internet is here to stay.

There is such an abundance of information and the internet has become such an integral part of our lives in just a few short years. Right now I find it fascinating that when I think about how I bought my first house in 1996 compared to the process of buying my second home just last year. I didn't [Avoid the use of contractions in formal writing (e.g., Don't = do not)] even use the internet for any part of the process the first time around. I looked up a realtor in the phone book and I got all the information on listings from here. She gave me some documentation on different mortgage brokers and all of the homes we looked for were ones that she had picked out for us to see based on our criteria. This time around I had most of these things complete by the time I had even selected a relator (which I did online). There are several tools online that let you complete much of the home buying process yourself with little to no experience in real estate. Even if you know nothing about real estate at all you can learn everything you need to know online.

The first thing I did was find a neighborhood I wanted to live in. This was merely a matter of checking out mapquest and finding the areas that were within the radius I wanted to be from certain other key points on interest, such as my office and where my kids live. Then I was able to check out other key statistics such as crime rates and how the schools rate.

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