 The number found through the search engines are more than three times the counts generated by the British National Corpus, indicating the significant size of the English corpus available on the Web.The massive size of text available on the Web can be seen in the analysis of controlled data in which corpora of different languages were mixed in various proportions.The estimated Web size in words by AltaVista saw English at the top of the list with 76,598,718,000 words.