Do You China?

China tops Asian blogosphere.

I conducted Google Blog Search at noon (Hong Kong time; GMT + 8):

Ranking - Country - Number Of Results

1. China 975,684 ("Hong Kong" 190,609; Taiwan 156,433)
2. India 818,483
3. Japan 805,412
4. Singapore 339,233
5. Malaysia 215,098

6. Thailand 210,341
7. Vietnam 175,053
8. Taiwan 156,433
9. Afghanistan 147,453
10. Indonesia 144,935

11. Philippines 144,884
12. Pakistan 126,502
13. "South Korea" 67,013
14. "North Korea" 53,571
15. "Sri Lanka" 51,571

16. Bangladesh 46,702
17. Nepal 43,244
18. Cambodia 32,616
19. Laos 18,829
20. Burma 16,609 (Myanmar 14,741)

21. Brunei 15,822
22. Uzbekistan 15,146
23. Kazakhstan 14,387
24. Mongolia 14,010
25. Maldives 12,964

26. Kyrgyzstan 7,234
27. Tajikistan 4,423
28. Turkmenistan 4,287
29. Bhutan 4,193
30. "East Timor" 3,907

China matters: Love it or hate it, China is the focal point of outsiders. (In general, language factor is significant: Singapore, the English-speaking city state, ranks fourth and South Korea does not even make the top ten. Few Chinese bloggers blog in English.)

Blog divide: There are more blogs on China, India and Japan, the big three of Asian blogosphere, than the total of the remaining 27 countries.

No man's land: Central Asia countries were rarely seen. Afghanistan is the exception and you know why.

(I base on this list. Russia and Middle-East countries are not included.)

Comments

[fons]

Hi there, interesting list. I wonder how you used the search engine to get the results? How can you identify different countries?

[Letters from China]

Fons,

I used Google Blog Search (blogsearch.google.com).

[Letters from China]

Fons,

I have just read your post titled "How many weblogs has China?" at ChinaHerald.net. Obviously my "answer" above is nonsense. My apology.

My methodology is simple. At noon, October 1 (Hong Kong time), I searched by inputting Asian country names (the informal name: China instead of People's Republic of China, for instance). I recorded the number of results returned. Essentially, the objective of my research is to understand how many bloggers, REGARDLESS OF THEIR LOCATION, are talking about China or India or any other Asian countries in their English-language blogs. My research therefore cannot help answer your question about the number of blogs China has.