Woz - 3:58 am on Nov 6, 2002 (gmt 0)

Welcome to Webmasterworld Diklee (Ley Ho)

You raise some interesting points on the ratio of Native Language pages to English pages.

>I haven't seen any figures about the breakdown of the number of pages in Google's index by language.

I did some research [webmasterworld.com] some time ago on Fast which may be of interest. It is more difficult to do the same research on Google.

>Google's ranking heavily depends on link analysis. ~~ Pages in the Western world, for obvious reasons, rarely link to Chinese pages.

Interesting observation, this would probably affect ranking to a certain degree as long as the search query could be correctly parsed.

Onya
Woz