FoodPlaces - 11:40 pm on Feb 22, 2003 (gmt 0)

martinibuster,

Keep in mind that Korea's (and various other asian nations) internet access is second to none, and makes US access statistics look downright abysimal. With the information gleaned from Google and Amazon.com as well, this would indeed lead to a high number of stats coming from those areas. Korea happens to have a very high number of Internet Cafes for instance. Many many times more than in the US. Larger broadband penetration and more. At least, that's the info included in numerous articles about internet cafes, regulation, etc that have surfaced on places such as The Register, Wired and elsewhere.

I'd thus expect higher Alexa/Amazon/Google penetration. This, in my opinion, would mean that US sites with high rankings *thus globally* have "done a lot more" to have such rankings, since most people do not realize that Alexa rankings are global and not US based.