Languages On Sites
We asked what languages were used on sites in this survey: most of them had English, but many have other languages as well or instead. As you can see below, most of of these more complex non-English sites have search engines installed. See also our report on multilingual sites and searching.
The numbers of sites publishing in Unicode (the new standard encoding system) has continued to rise slowly, and more sites using Unicode include search engines. Because the encoding is the same across languages and character sets, it's very convenient for search engines to deal with Unicode, and we notice that a small maority of Unicode sites have search engines installed.
language without search with search English 622 348 French 52 56 Spanish 45 38 German 43 40 Unicode 15 19 Japanese 6 17 Dutch 13 7 Italian 13 3 Russian 9 7 Danish 5 10 Chinese 6 8 Finnish 4 3 Swedish 4 3 Portuguese 4 0 Norwegian 3 1 Hebrew 1 3 Arabic 2 1 Welsh 2 1 Estonian 1 1 Catalan 1 0 Croatian 1 0 European Languages 1 0 Hungarian 1 0 Icelandic 1 0 Latin 1 0 Latvian 1 0 Pilipino 1 0 Romanian 1 0 Turkish 1 0 Spanish 0 1 Thai 0 1 Ukrainain 0 1 Yiddish 0 1 * A number of Danish MondoSearch customers were encouraged to take the survey.
