China: The New Sleeping Giant 1

Posted by science on February 24, 2009

These data just in from Netcraft, Chinese site qq.com goes from 3 sites to the third largest webserver provider in a month simply by enabling blogging for its users. Bigger than Goggle’s blogger, bigger than Microsoft’s Live Spaces and bigger than MySpace. In a month.

Developer January 2009 Percent February 2009 Percent Change
Apache 96,947,298 52.26% 104,796,820 48.59% -3.67
Microsoft 61,038,371 32.91% 62,935,449 29.18% -3.72
qq.com 3 0.00% 20,021,763 9.28% 9.28
Google 9,868,819 5.32% 8,157,546 3.78% -1.54
nginx 3,462,551 1.87% 3,447,596 1.60% -0.27

Source: Netcraft Web Survey Survery Feb 2009
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