Chinese Internet Usage Rivals U.S.

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by BurnsInternet, Jul 13, 2007.

  1. #1
    Posted just for fun.... Not that I condone going after the Chinese market right now. Too many issues unless you read/write Chinese and understand the market. Pew has some interesting demographic stats on men/women, Latinos, etc.

    http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/218/report_display.asp

    The world map of internet usage is interesting.

    http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Internet_users_by_country_world_map.PNG

    This is also a nice grouping of world stats by region and country.

    http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

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    BurnsInternet, Jul 13, 2007 IP
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    Lpspider Well-Known Member

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    That's depressing.
     
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    imteaz Notable Member

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    Wow, Asia is top. never knew that before.
    i always though american people use internet most.
     
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  4. BurnsInternet

    BurnsInternet Peon

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    Not bad news at all! New markets for everyone! A bigger pie, and we can all take a slice if we want.

    Mandarin and English will be the most heavily used languages on the internet, and the growth for other languages will still be strong. This is good news, guys and gals. Translate a few Chinese pages for your sites (or pay someone to translate) and KAPOW - you nearly double your audience.

    How can that be bad?
     
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    w3bmaster Notable Member

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    Asia has a huge population that's why

    It will be intrested a pocentage i'm SURE North America is 1 Europe 2 and the rest as for procentage
     
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  6. BurnsInternet

    BurnsInternet Peon

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    USA is the largest user by country, but India and China have much larger populations. Indian surfers generally like/use English, so that is good news as they grow. The world is going online. Good for us!
     
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    BurnsInternet Peon

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    Asia also has a low internet penetration rate. The North American (especially USA) market is not going to grow as fast as the rest of the world.

    Gear up by translating some pages to French, Spanish, Italian, and maybe even Korean, Japanese, or Chinese. You already know everything else about SEO and have a site, experiment and make it multilingual.

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    BurnsInternet, Jul 13, 2007 IP