rencke - 12:54 pm on Sep 4, 2000 (gmt 0)

Pete: I'm not sure I know what an African band aid engine is, but I gather that whatever it is, your are not happy with it. (Freeware set up on a cheap low bandwidth server?) Gimme an URL so I can learn.

There is an interesting item here. Africa has 3.1 million Internet users out of a population of over 650 million and so is not out of the starting blocks yet. (South Africa, Egypt and Nigeria alone account for more than two thirds with 1.8, 0.4 and 0.1 million users respectively.)The question is this: Will the big US engines have the national African SE-markets under total control by the time they get rolling, or will we see new national engines, serving national interests in the future.

As to languages used by Swedes when searching. Ask me again in 6 months and I will give you an exact answer. Meanwhile, look at [evreka.passagen.se...] for a couple of minutes. Should give you a rough idea. But remember, no other non-English speaking people in Europe speak English to the same extent as Swedes. 8 years of English in school or more for almost all of us, subtitles rather than dubbing in TV and so on. So when looking for a foreign product, almost all would search in English. (But a doorway in Swedish is an awfully nice touch though, if you are trying to sell something.)