MYSPACE BOOMS

News Corporation MySpace website today reached one hundred million registered users.

The milestone was reached today at 2.41 PM CET and the last few hours the site got about 70-80 new members per minute.

In April this year, Aber Whitcomb, chief technology officer of MySpace, predicted that the site would serve 100 million members in January 2007, a goal the site now reached 5 months earlier.

According to Wikipedia, MySpace is the most popular website in the United States and is currently growing with 500,000 new users each week.

Google will pay News Corp. at least $900 million to be the search provider on MySpace and other sites.

The move gives Google exclusive access to one of the most popular sites on the Internet, and follows Google's $1 billion deal to provide searches on AOL.