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In view of G's importance to us Anglophones, I was surprised at some of the low numbers for countries I had heard had also succumbed to the Big G.
Some examples: Germany-3008, France-4364, Sweden-1231.
The surprise is Greece, with 8409, third after UK and Ireland.
Can we safely assume there's a correlation between the number of sites in a country category and the importance of Google in that particular market?
No, it's not safe to assume that at all. Google doesn't compile the directory, dmoz.org does. The number of sites in a ODP category is dependent on three things: how many sites exits about the country (in English), how many of them get submitted, and how much time the editors spend looking for ones that aren't submitted.
The number of English-language sites about Greece is in no way indicative of Google usage in Greece. It probably just indicates the ODP editors for that category are really enthusiastic about their work.
As we used to say back in my grad school days, "Your premise is flawed, your conclusions are wrong, and your logic is corrupt. Next time, do the reading." We were kinda melodramatic back in my grad school days.
Where did you get that flawed premise?
Regional is an English-only category, as its FAQ says: [dmoz.org...]
Again, I must say, "Do the reading".
Sites in Greek belong over in World. Therefore the size of the categories we're talking about depends on the number of sites available in English, QED.
Here's an example, the second site in the category
[dmoz.org...]
Anyway, point scoring aside ;-), World: Italiano: Regionale: Europa: Italia (21.632) is still pretty small, Virgilio.it boasts of 100,000 Italian sites, so let me flesh out my flawed premise a bit.
Any minimally competent SEO, in a country where Google is a major source of traffic, would be aware of the importance of a DMOZ listing in the scheme of things.
To me these low numbers imply either that the SEOs are incompetent, or that Google just does not loom half as large on their horizon as it does on ours.
As I'm reluctant to imply the former, I'm assuming the latter.
