Editing German language (section)

===Internet===

According to [[Global Reach]] (2004), 6.9% of the Internet population is German.<ref name = "Global Reach">[http://global-reach.biz/globstats/index.php3 Global Statistics], [http://global-reach.biz./ Global Reach].</ref><ref name = "NVTC">[http://www.nvtc.gov/lotw/months/november/internetLanguages.htm  Internet Languages], [http://www.nvtc.gov/ NVTC].</ref> According to Netz-tipp (2002), 7.7% of webpages are written in German,<ref name=netz>{{cite web|url=http://www.netz-tipp.de/languages.html |title=Distribution of languages on the Internet |publisher=Netz-tipp.de |date= |accessdate=2010-03-15}}</ref> making it second only to English in the European language group. They also report that 12% of Google's users use its German interface.<ref name=netz />

Some older statistics included in 1998 Babel found somewhat similar demographics.<ref name = "ISOC">[http://alis.isoc.org/palmares.en.html Palmares], [http://isoc.org./ Internet Society].</ref> FUNREDES<ref name = "funredes">[http://funredes.org/lc2005/english/L3.html Funredes].</ref> (1998) and Vilaweb<ref name = "Vilaweb">[http://www.clickz.com/stats/sectors/demographics/article.php/408521 Vilaweb].</ref> (2000) both found that German is the third most popular language used by websites, after English and [[Japanese language|Japanese]].