Makaveli2007 - 7:42 pm on Nov 10, 2009 (gmt 0)

I wonder what you mean by "competition"? Is it in competing websites? Or in traffic,etc.? "

I meant competing websites. please dont mistake me for a wise-guy, but..traffic isn't really competition in any kind of way, or is it?;-)

Maybe youre right that more of the websites in English are Indian, etc. and I just dont notice it b/c their grasp of English is that good.

Good English plus internet access: you need both.

Is internet access (as in spending a lot of time in an internet café) still too expensive for many people in those countries? (I have no idea to be honest)

Is there a good chance, that it'll become cheaper for them, and then competition in the English language SERPs might increase dramatically (once that barrier to entry dissappears)?

(hope I dont c ome off as paranoid, I'm German, in Germany and German is my mother tongue, so I dont really have that problem...but I find the topic pretty interesting!)