Contents -- Corpus linguistics and the web -- Accessing the web as corpus -- Using web data for linguistic purposes -- Concordancing the web: promise and problems, tools and techniques -- WebCorp: an integrated system for web text search -- Compiling corpora from the internet -- From webpage to mega-corpus: the CNN transcripts -- Constructing a corpus from the web: message boards -- Towards a taxonomy of web registers and text types: a multidimensional analysis -- Critical voices -- New resources, or just better old ones? The Holy Grail of representativeness -- An under-exploited resource: using the BNC for exploring the nature of language learning -- Language variation and change -- Exploring constructions on the web: a case study -- Determinants of grammatical variation in English and the formation/confirmation of linguistic hypotheses by means of internet data -- Recalcitrant problems of comparative alternation and new insights emerging from internet data -- Change and variation in present-day English: integrating the analysis of closed corpora and web-based monitoring -- The dynamics of inner and outer circle varieties in the South Pacific and East Asia -- 'He rung the bell' and 'she drunk ale' - non-standard past tense forms in traditional British dialects and on the internet -- Diachronic analysis with the internet? Will and shall in ARCHER and in a corpus of e-texts from the web.