Anyone here from Equatorial Guinea? Perhaps
Reason why I ask is that the DMOZ team was amazed to see the global reach of our audience. In February, we saw visitors from 200+ "countries" to DMOZ.org. Not a misprint...200+.
That's huge! Everything from heavily industrialized nations to protectorates on far reaches of the Earth with populations of less than 1200 people.
The usual & expected countries are represented near the top in terms of traffic.
Places like the US, UK, Russia, Italy, Japan, Australia, France and Spain. Not a big surprise given the depth of content we have the active editor base in these parts of the world.
What's pretty cool and completely unexpected was the volume of traffic that came from places like this:
South Korea - not so surprising actually : )
Latvia
Uruguay
Jamaica
Cote D Ivoire
Mongolia
Iraq
And then the "long tail" of traffic from places like:
Fiji
Madagascar
Afghanistan
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Rwanda
Cook Islands
Tonga
And a single visitor each from:
Christmas Island & North Korea
There are 180 additional places that we could mention and perhaps we'll start sharing that on a monthly basis if that is something you all would like to see.
What this limited view shows ( to us ) is the impact of our volunteers. We've created something that has global reach and utility. It shows there is a need and genuine preference to access a human edited directory. That some folks here on planet Earth simply prefer the wisdom of experts and fellow countrymen to that of machines to find what they want on the web.
And if it is localized to your part of the world or the language you're most fluent in-even better.
Cheers to all the mozzie fans from Togo to
1. Dear DMOZ Team,
We on behalf of Nagarro would like to discuss our entry of Projistics. Due to some erros, Projistics has been registered three times in your directory under three different categories with varied titles and descriptions. Request you to please delete two of those entries and edit the remaining last entry with the following details:
Category
Top: Computers: Software: Configuration Management: Bug Tracking
Title
Projistics
Description
Projistics is a web based bug tracking tool and is used as a Bug Tracking Software / Bug Tracker software.
Request for an early update on the same.
Posted at 5:31AM on Mar 14th 2008 by Rohit
2. If you find problems with existing listings, please tell us about them by using the "update listing" link on the dmoz.org category page that contains the problem. (If you think a listing is in the wrong category, then please make a note of that in the "Please describe the nature of your changes" box.) An editor will then look at your suggestions, and take any action deemed necessary.
Posted at 6:13AM on Mar 14th 2008 by chaos127
3. It is rather impressive having visitors from 200+ countries to DMOZ.org when there are 193 states with general international recognition in the world.
Posted at 1:22PM on Mar 14th 2008 by bza
4. BZA - thanks for sharing the stat on recognized countries. That's why we added the quotations to the "countries."
Wasn't certain yet on Christmas Island's status on the world stage : )
Appreciate the comment.And I think you're right, it is impressive to reach the reach to all corners of the Earth. I'm curious to know how they are accessing the internet...and how do they know about DMOZ? If anyone can answer those questions...please post on the blog!
Posted at 1:17PM on Mar 14th 2008 by bbqgrant
5. Greetings from China!
i18n is really a great thing!
Posted at 5:35AM on Mar 16th 2008 by Awflasher
6. Thanks and documents
Posted at 11:06AM on Mar 18th 2008 by regülatör
7. thanks dmoz
Posted at 11:15AM on Mar 18th 2008 by regülatör
8. That would have been me from Christmas Island. Woah!!!!
http://fearlessandfabulous.blogspot.com Gotta love the internet for making the world a whole lot smaller. 200 countries thats amazing!!! Also comes with some responsibility for all of us as well!
Posted at 1:17AM on Apr 1st 2008 by lilly
9. It is really nice to know that DMOZ is getting users worldwide and it will help them to find appropriate website, which ever they are searching in DMOZ. But as per my knowledge we have 193 countries then how can reach 200 is your neighborer's home is a country?
Posted at 2:59AM on May 1st 2008 by Gaurav Singh
10. many of the comments are discussed at our user forum http://www.aihoo.com/EEC_road_legal_quads/ - you will find all the answers in there ;-)
Nice post - I love it ;-) Writing one of my own.
Posted at 3:52PM on May 28th 2008 by frankchen
11. It is rather impressive having visitors from 200+ countries to DMOZ.org when there are 193 states with general international recognition in the world.
http://www.smqi.com/Aquaskipper/
Posted at 3:55PM on May 28th 2008 by frankchen
12. Where the websites and internet exists Dmoz is there. To be frank, It looks like, Dmoz has done a brilliant job. They have expended, and the way they conducted this, is examplry. Too less this have-had been seen.
Posted at 1:22PM on Jun 7th 2008 by Tina