Are there more people who want to create the next big website then offline company?

[froggyboy604]

Yes, I think there are more people who want to create the next big website like Google, Facebook, and Twitter since it usually cost a lot less to start up a website since it can be as cheap as 5 dollars a month for web hosting, and 1 dollar a year for the first year for a .com domain name registration.

Plus, it is easy to shutdown a website, or let it stay online if you give up on it by not paying your web hosting bill, or paying your $100 or less a year for web hosting and domain for smaller websites which never got big.

While with an offline company like a bigger grocery store like Safeway, you need to buy food to sell, hire a lot of staff to put food on the shelves, pay land tax, and utilities like heating, electricity, phone, etc which can cost 10,000s or more per year.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

considering how big facebook is and even got a movie I'm sure people do.

 

[froggyboy604]

Facebook the movie is based on Facebook the book which is based on Facebook early days when the owner, and many of the staff still attended Harvard University http://latimesblogs....ook-the-mo.html

Facebook is also the most popular free apps for Google Android, Apple iOS, and other phones.

I read on http://searchenginel...rch-term-143161 that "Facebook" is the most search word on Google which is strange since typing Facebook.com , setting Facebook as the homepage for their browser, or bookmarking Facebook.com is not that hard to do, and don't require a Google search.

Facebook login, Facebook.com, www.Facebook.com are also in the top 10 most search phrases for 2012 in Google. YouTube is number 2.

I wonder when Facebook comes out with a search engine will people search Facebook on Facebook's search engine instead of clicking the login link on Facebook search.

I'm surprise that Craigslist was more searched then Yahoo, ebay, and Amazon according to http://searchenginel...rch-term-143161 , and Mapquest which is a site I never heard of is number 9 beating out Amazon at number 10.

 

[hissae2]

Its much easier to set up a website than it is to start up a company so it wouldn't be surprising.

 

[froggyboy604]

I agree, and even if a website never takes off, the owner can still probably sell the domain name, or keep the domain name, and hope someone would want to buy it for their online company like search engine, social network, blog, or forum in the future.

I bet a lot of popular domain names like Firefox.com, Facebook.com , Google.com , Amazon.com, eBay.com and Yahoo.com were previously registered by regular people, or companies which register hundreds to thousands of domains to latter sell to companies and people with money who plan on building a website.