Google Runs 10.5 Million Web Sites

By Jim on October 31st, 2008

Interesting stats about Google running more than 10.5 million web sites.

Apache once again shows the largest growth, gaining 463 thousand sites this month. ThePlanet.com gains 1.3 million sites this month — nearly all of which are running on Apache — but this includes a large number of ‘link farm’ sites that use .pl domains to propagate search terms using pornographic phrases.

Google shows the next largest growth and boosts its total by 411 thousand sites. Google now runs 10.5 million sites on its own webserver software, which is used to host its own services in addition to user-generated applications and blogs. Some server names include:

* GFE/1.3, which is used by Google’s Blogger service to publish third party blogs under the blogspot.com domain, and spreadsheets and other documents under docs.google.com.
* GWS-GRFE/0.50, which runs Google Groups.
* gws. This simple, lowercase name is used by Google’s main search site at google.com and Google Image Search.
* Google Frontend, which is used to run third party applications on Google App Engine (often using the appspot.com domain) and Google Mashups.

Wow. Well this blog isn’t being run by Google. I do have the iPhone 3G Free Software Review Blog being run on Blogger though. And another non-tech blog. So Google has its uses for sure.