William T Goodall wrote: >Now consider that Korea (AFAIK) has the highest penetration of broadband >internet in the world, that Chinese ideographs are the most common written >language etc and it seems likely that in a few years most spam (and most of >the www for that matter) will be in ideographs rather than English. > I think that's personal/domestic penetration. US companies still pour an awful lot of stuff onto the net through some fairly big pipes. And I think that those same high bandwidth users in Korea have a fairly high proportion of English speakers among them.
What interests me is the disproportionate number of Russian pages I get in any given Google search. Regardless, I think English will remain the dominant language on the net for a while yet. Russell C.
