Internet business intelligence firm Cyveillance claims there are currently 2.1 billion unique, publicly available Internet pages. That, of course, was of a few seconds ago, since the Arlington, Va., company's new study, Sizing the Internet, also says the Internet is growing at a rate of seven million pages a day.

At that rate, the number of pages on the Internet will double by early next year. Cyveillance further projects that the Internet's highest rate of growth is still to come.

Cyveillance used its NetSapien Technology, an artificial intelligence-based search-and-analysis technology, to model the Internet for the study. The dynamic modeling technique 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's chief technology officer 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."

For the 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.

Other findings in the report include that the average size of a page is 10,060 bytes; the average number of internal links per page is 23; the average number of external links per page, 5.6; the average number of images on a page, 14.4; and the percentage of U.S. vs. international pages: 84.7 percent vs. 15.3 percent.

A real-time Web page counter displaying the most current tally is also available on the Cyveillance home page at http://www.cyveillance.com.

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.

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A privately held company founded in 1997, Cyveillance provides clients with competitive and marketing intelligence, as well as brand, partner and supplier management insights, allowing corporate executives to increase revenue, grow market share and enhance brand and customer loyalty.

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.