Electronic Documents Growing... and Growing... and Growing

Last February, we ran a Google search to estimate the number of Adobe Acrobat PDF files that are available on the Internet. At the time, there were 315 million URLs that ended with the address “.pdf”. Just six months later, that same search identified 684 million of them.

While this is not a perfect way of determining how many documents are on line, it is still quite informative. The popular use of the Internet may be just 11 years old, but this indicates that it’s still bulking up on its way to teenagerhood.