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IP: The Web No Longer American

From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 10:20:34 -0500

Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 16:06:16 -0500
From: Gene Gaines <gene.gaines () gainesgroup com>

Dave,

A milestone has been passed.

From WebSideStory at:


http://www.websidestory.com/content.cfm?Pg=3&PR=10000000000024
(If link bad, goto http://www.websidestory.com and see press release.)

Salient paragraphs:

   55 PERCENT OF ALL WEB TRAFFIC WORLDWIDE COMES
   FROM OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES
   Germany, Canada, S. Korea Head List of Non-U.S. Countries with Most
   Active Internet Populations, According to WebSideStory's StatMarket

   SAN DIEGO, CA -- January 23, 2001 - WebSideStory, Inc.
   www.websidestory.com), the leading provider of real-time Internet
   intelligence for e-business, today reported that non-U.S. Web surfers
   account for 54.98 percent of all Web traffic worldwide. Germany
   accounted for the largest majority of non-U.S. Web surfers in the sample
   with 5.56 percent as of Jan. 16, 2001, according to WebSideStory's
   StatMarket (www.statmarket.com). Canada was next with 5 percent,
   followed by South Korea (4.57 percent), and Japan (4.35 percent). The
   U.S. accounted for 45.02 percent of all global Web traffic, StatMarket
   reported.

   "This is a wake up call to businesses that have thought about adopting a
   global Internet strategy, but have yet to implement one," said Geoff
   Johnston, vice president of product marketing for StatMarket. "Although
   the U.S. still accounts for a significant portion of Web traffic, we
   expect that percentage to continue shrinking as more people come online."

   ...

Internet news.com adds more to the story:

http://www.internetnews.com/intl-news/article/0,,6_570121,00.html

Excerpt from this story, which is datelined South Africa:

   .. .according to the Internet Industry Almanac, America ranks number 4
   for the number of Internet users per Capita 406.4 per 1000 people.
   Number 1 is Canada, with 428.2 Internet users per 1000, followed by

Sweden

   (414.5/1000) and Finland (408.4/1000). By the end of 2002, 23 countries
   are expected to have over 30% of their population wired onto the Net. Of
   the 601 million projected Internet users by 2002, the Almanac expects 27%
   to be American.

   As the Net develops, English will cease to be the dominant language, with
   Chinese, French, German and other languages generating webs within webs,
   only available to those who speak the language and thereby have an
   understanding of the culture. In South Africa, Afrikaans is already well
   represented and as other cultural groups gain access to the Net, more

will

   follow.

   Important for Americans is the fact that most Americans only speak a
single
   language, while English is the most spoken 2nd language in the world. In
   other words, as the Net develops, non-American surfers, who generally
speak
   2 or more languages, will have access to a larger web than their American
   counterparts.

Gene Gaines
gene.gaines () gainesgroup com




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