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An exhaustive study of existing methods to measure languages online and more evidences that English around 25%

COMPARISON BETWEEN DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO MEASURE PROPORTION OF LANGUAGES ON LINE AND HISTORICAL FLASHBACK So far, five different approaches have been identified of companies, universities or civil society organizations offering, as of today, figures about language’s proportion online. This study…

A peer-review publication says English domination on the Web a half-truth

An important milestone for OBDILCI: our article “Is it True that More Than Half of Web Contents are in English? Not If Multilingualism is Paid Due Attention!” has finally been published in the peer-reviewed Forum for Linguistic Studies. We wish…

China looks after our studies

Chinese researcher discovers that the figures about a tiny Chinese web content share in spite of being the first language in terms of users maybe flawed by the use of biased data. 中文互联网内容真的正在衰退吗？ (Is Chinese Internet content really declining?): https://www.shkp.org.cn/articles/2024/06/wx483444.html …

New page: English@Web

New page: English@Web: an historical bias You are surprised to discover OBDILCI announcing values for the percentage of English in the Web around 20%? You have read everywhere that English represents more than 50% of the web, way above any…