Which languages – counties are the biggest geeks
If you look at Alexa, the site which ranks popular sites on the Internet, you can look at the top 500 most popular sites in the world. I will not list the ranking out as that is something that you can explore. But what I noticed was out of the top 500 sites Slavic speaking counties or languages rank disproportionately high in comparison to the their populations for popular. Of course English is the international language and absolute language at this juncture on the Internet, but look at the top 500 ranking. I would have expected more Asian countries – languages or Spanish sites, however, in a relative, but not absolute way, I would say sites that the Russian or Polish language sites have a much more pages which rank high in the top 500 on the Internet.
For example the Polish e-bay Allegro is in the top 40 most popular sites in the world and Poland only has 38 million people (out of 6 billion), while the large Russian mail servers are all in the top 50.
What is the reason Slavic languages dominate? I think it is because Slavic counties have a strong technical educational background and have always had a tradition of math and science, from rocket scientists to the founder of Google Sergey Brin. I am an America that lives in Poland. I would have to say that the average Pole is eons more computer and web savvy than that the average westerner. I love America, its just an observation that every Russian, Ukrainian, Polish boy and girl from Moscow to Kiev to Lviv to Krakow knows something about writing programs, and are plugged in. This is perhaps why Slavic languages are so popular on the Internet.
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