Google’s Senior Software Architect, Mark Davis recently posted on Google’s Blog regarding Unicode nearing 50% of the web.

It’s good to know that BuiltWith Trends data is along the same lines as Google’s huge index of websites. Here’s our graph for UTF-8 Unicode Trends, the third fastest growing technology on the web -

And here is Google’s -

Copyright Google.

BuiltWith Trends covers usage statistics and allows you to download lists of websites running specific technologies.

The Australian Labour Government is going ahead with a plan to censor the internet here in Australia.

BuiltWith has a record of 6,000,000 unique domain names, Google’s search index is over 1,000,000,000,000 pages, the blacklist contains just 1,175 URLS. It is just not possible to filter the internet like this. If these websites are illegal then their content should be removed not filtered.

If the plan were really about protecting the children, and if it were really evidence-based, the government would have first have figured out what risks children actually face — online and everywhere else. They’d then figure out the best methods of countering those risks. Then they’d figure out the most cost-effective ways of implementing those solutions.

If we did that, we’d probably find that the risks are the very same ones that child protection experts keep banging on about. Bullying by their peers. Abuse from within their own homes and families. Poverty and its associated health risks. Obesity.

But this is politics, not child protection.

Source: stilgherrian.com

To raise awareness about the internet filter BuiltWith.com will be blackening its logo for the duration of Australia Day worldwide (across all time zones). So on the 26th January BuiltWith.com will change to this logo and have a link for more information -

You can read more information about the Australian Internet Blackout at internetblackout.com.au.

Google Chrome is now the default browser used by us and we recommend you give it a try if you have not done so yet.

Google is beginning to allow extensions to be built into Chrome and as so we’ve released an extension which you can use to do quick and easy BuiltWith lookups, very similar to the BuiltWith Firefox Extension.

Install BuiltWith Technology Profiler for Google Chrome Here

Some screenshots -

A new feature of the BuiltWith Trends application is to allow you to download lists of websites using a particular technology.

We have a database of almost five million of the top websites on the internet from which we draw this information and our archive is getting bigger and bigger.

Not only can you get the address of the website but we also provide contact information such as postal address, email address and phone number.

Get started now, Visit BuiltWith Trends, find the technology you want to know about and click ‘Download List’.

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We’ll keep the blog updated as well for everyone not on Facebook!