Correction: Nabokov and Solzhenitsyn: English vs. Russian

[Josh Wilson]

Appologies to the list - those stats in the first post were reversed - they should have read as follows:

Search for "Путин" (Putin in Russian) using Google.ru = 10,800,000
Search for "Putin" (Putin in English) using Google.ru = 20,100,000

You will find many more hits on any topic in English on the Internet because the 750,000,000 people who speak English are generally wealthier (and therefore have better access to the Internet) than the 275,000,000 people who speak Russian.

JW



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Josh Wilson" <jwilson at sras.org>
To: <SEELANGS at listserv.cuny.edu>
Sent: Monday, February 20, 2006 9:44 AM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Nabokov and Solzhenitsyn: English vs. Russian


> Search for "Путин" (Putin in Russian) using Google.ru = 20,100,000
> Search for "Putin" (Putin in English) using Google.ru = 10,800,000
> 
> You will find many more hits on any topic in English on the Internet because 
> the 750,000,000 people who speak English are generally wealthier (and 
> therefore have better access to the Internet) than the 275,000,000 people 
> who speak Russian.

Josh Wilson
Asst. Director and Gen. Editor
The School of Russian and Asian Studies
www.sras.org
jwilson at sras.org

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