Internet Facts

• The Well was the first social network group.
• Wikipedia is free to edit for anyone.
• In China there are over 30 thousand people censoring the Web.
• Facebook has so many members that it could make the third largest country in the world.
• Flickr contains 3 million pictures and videos.
• Amazon is the world's most popular retailer with 124 million members and started as a bookshop.

• Stanford University has worked out an algorithm, which makes link counting possible in search engines such as Google. This is why the most popular page pops on top when you search.
• Google makes $200 profit every second.
• Gmail tracks your personal mail to give you more advertisement.
• Behavioural targeting means tracking the sites you visit and offer similar ones. 

• Recommendation engines can tell your taste of music or films and personalise your computer without even asking you to do anything.
• Google has a structured bidding process for adverts based on the formula p = b x q (price=bidding x quality)