A BlogPulse Milestone: 10 Million Blogs!

Just a few weeks shy of its first anniversary, BlogPulse has reached a key milesteone. On Saturday, BlogPulse technology identified more than 10 million blogs in the Blogosphere. And in honor of the number 10, we pulled a few statistics for people who favor Top 10 lists.

"Even we've been surprised at the unprecedented growth of the blogging phenomenon," said Sundar Kadayam, chief technology officer for Intelliseek, which owns BlogPulse. "To pass 10 million in less than a year is testament to both the rapid adoption of blogs and our technology's ability to analyze blog content and activity." (BlogPulse launched May 7, 2004).

On Sunday, BlogPulse had identified a total of 10,032,827 blogs -- 26,668 of them in the last 24 hours. Other common questions about blog indexing include:

What percent of all blogs does 10 million represent?
Ten million is the number of blogs that BlogPulse has discovered to date, and it represents the majority of publicly accessible English-language blogs.

Of the 10 million total, how many are active and how many are inactive?
According to our statistics, 31% are active within the last 30 days, 44% are active within the last 60 days and slightly more than half (51%) are active within the last 90 days. "Active" means a new post has been added.

In honor of the number 10, the BlogPulse tech team pulled some top 10 lists from recent posts covering March 1-April 18.

Top 10 blogs (based on numbers of citations)
• Boing Boing (6,568 citations)
• EnGadget (4,624 citations)
• Daily Kos (4,341 citations)
• Slashdot (3,874 citations)
• Instapundit (3,117 citations)
• Albino Black Sheep (2,948 citations)
• Michelle Malkin (2,801 citations)
• Gizmodo (2,500 citations)
• Powerline Blog (2,314 citations)
• Captain's Quarter Blog (2,039 citations)

Top 10 People Cited
And during that same time period, which people/personalities/celebrities got the most bloggers' ink?
• Terri Schiavo (24,017 citations)
• Pope John Paul II (16,610 citations)
• President Bush (15,461 citations)
• Britney Spears (10,641 citations)
• Michael Jackson (10,634 citations)
• Tom Delay (6,399 citations)
• Johnny Depp (6,249 citations)
• Donnie Darko (3,878 citations)
• Ashlee Simpson (3,818 citations)
• Michael Schiavo (3,579 citations)

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