Cyveillance Study Projects Internet Will Double in Size by Early 2001

Arlington, VA, July 10, 2000-Cyveillance, a Washington, D.C.-area Internet company, today announced the release of its study, "Sizing the Internet," which reveals that 2.1 billion unique, publicly available pages exist on the Internet. The study also found that the Internet is growing at an explosive rate of more than 7 million pages each day, indicating that it will double in size by early 2001. Cyveillance further projects that the Internet's highest rate of growth is still to come.

Cyveillance, the leading provider in "Extra-Site" e-Business Intelligence, used its NetSapien™ Technology, an artificial intelligence-based search-and-analysis technology, to model the Internet for this study. The dynamic modeling technique used by NetSapien Technology is based on a continuum, so it can monitor actual growth and estimate the rate of acceleration or deceleration on an ongoing basis.

"As the Internet grows, so does the 'knowledge gap' between what companies know and what they don't know, translating directly into lost opportunities and lost revenue," said Wolfgang Tolle, Cyveillance CTO and vice president of operations. "More than ever, companies now need to gather e-Business Intelligence not just from their own corporate Web site but also from the other 2 billion-plus pages on the Internet that may be impacting their business."

Cyveillance's "Extra-Site" e-Business Intelligence helps corporations identify key Internet opportunities and risks. "Extra-Site" is a term used by Cyveillance to convey the breadth of NetSapien Technology's capability to mine and analyze the Internet's billions of publicly accessible pages versus just mining Web traffic and user data from within a specific corporate Web site. Cyveillance provides clients with competitive and marketing intelligence, as well as brand, partner and supplier management insights, enabling corporate executives to increase revenue, grow market share and enhance brand and customer loyalty.

For this study, Cyveillance analyzed Internet pages and examined links, tracking the frequency of unique URLs. To illustrate the power and scope of the technology employed for this ongoing study, a subset of the data collected over a four-month period alone represented approximately 350 million links. Additional findings from the study include:

• Average size of pages: 10,060 bytes
• Average number of internal links per page: 23
• Average number of external links per page: 5.6
• Average number of images on a page: 14.4
• Percentage of US vs. international pages: 84.7% /15.3%
  

About Cyveillance

Cyveillance (www.cyveillance.com), a privately held company founded in 1997, is the leading provider of "Extra-Site" e-Business Intelligence. Cyveillance helps major corporations, organizations and select government agencies drive revenue, increase market share and build brand and customer loyalty. Unique to the company are its e-Business Strategy Center and its proprietary NetSapien Technology, an industrial-strength software that acts like a human but moves at the speed of the Net. Cyveillance clients include leaders in the computer, automotive, publishing, music, motion picture, apparel and telecommunications industries, among others. The company was named one of Digital South magazine's "Top 50 Companies to Watch in 1999 and 2000," and its NetSapien Technology recently became part of the Smithsonian Institute's Permanent Research Collection of technological innovations for the new millennium.

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