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Originally Posted by italiandragon at the moment it is, in the future it may be not:
Top Ten Languages Used in the Web
( Number of Internet Users by Language )
TOP TEN LANGUAGES
IN THE INTERNET
Internet Users,
by Language
% of all
Internet Users
World Population
2006 Estimate
for Language
Internet
Penetration
by Language
Internet Growth
for Language
( 2000 - 2005 )
English
312,757,646
30.6 %
1,125,664,397
27.8 %
128.0 %
Chinese
132,301,513
13.0 %
1,340,767,863
9.9 %
309.6 %
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Well, yes their are probably over a billion people that speak a smattering of English, but this is about as misleading as the CIA assertion that most Indians speak English.
What we are really interested in here is statics relating to the languages people actually use when they are relaxing in their own homes, which is what they will probably surf the internet for much of the tme and will be the language that governs most of their purchasing decisions.
I was really astounded when the Internet came on line at the shear amount of factually information available. The problem is that as time goes on your realise that much of this information varies from second hand poorly researched assertions to absolute b*ll*cks.