In other words, you can count how many sites other than your own link to your site. And it means that if you've got more than 1000 other Web sites linking to your site, then you're doing a very good job of marketing your Web site. Well, the most comprehensive listing remains Yahoo's listing of lawyers. So the number of lawyers in Yahoo's directory ends up being a reasonable estimate. As of January 1997, there were about 1700 law firms on the Web.
All statistics are hearsay, but some are reliable hearsay.
This page contains all the statistics mentioned above and should help you draw your own conclusions about the growth and use of the Net. Like Strunk and White's The Elements of Style , Paulos's Innumeracy should be on the bookshelf of every publisher. Well, one step at a time. The American Bar Association. All rights reserved.