Estimates - "The number of people online around the world will grow more than 45 per cent to 2.2 billion users by 2013 and Asia will continue to be the biggest Internet growth engine.
"... India will be the third largest internet user base by 2013 - with China and the US taking the first two spots, respectively," technology and market research firm
Forrester Research said in a report.
Globally, there were about 1.5 billion Internet users in the year 2008.
Titled 'Global Online Population Forecast, 2008 to 2013', the report noted that emerging markets like India would see a growth of 10 to 20 per cent by 2013.
With a user base of 100 million, India now stands third in the world in terms of the number of people surfing the net, an official of internet search engine Google said Tuesday.
Top 3 internet Users world wide:
- China
- USA
- India
Net through mobile phones:
Of the internet users in the country, 40 million access the net through mobile phones.
Estimate is that by 2012, the number of mobile internet users will surpass those entering the net via their laptops or desktops.
The number of mobile internet surfers in India is growing rapidly.
In 2007, the country had only two million such users. Now the number has gone up 20 times
Goel, also said most of the internet users in the country search for songs.
With a population of 1.2 billion that has made the country the second most populous nation in the world; Indians continue to wonder how to get pregnant.
At least that’s what they have been asking the online search engine, Google, most frequently. According to the Google Zeitgeist 2010, an analysis of the search trends for the year released by Google India, ‘How to get pregnant’ is the most frequently googled question by Indians.
