The latest results from the OCLC Office of Research Web Characterization project have just been released. Interesting data. You can find a summary at:

http://www.oclc.org/oclc/press/20001016a.htm

For those interested in web characterization, there is also an interesting report on what they call "the deep web" (ie databases etc which are accessible via web interfaces; others call this "dark matter" or "the invisible web") which was released in July by a company called BrightPlanet. If you haven't seen this it's at

http://www.completeplanet.com/Tutorials/DeepWeb/index.asp


Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI