TABLE OF CONTENTS

Prologue and antecedents
Authors
Overview of the study and its results
Results in detail
Evolutionary tendencies of the studied languages
Perspectives for follow-up observations
Internet references of related works

APPENDICES

Appendix 1 : Recap and references to other studies carried out by the authors
Appendix 2 : Graphic representation of the intervals of reliability for the results of each language
Appendix 3 : List of the terms in the reference sample
Appendix 4 : Search engine selection for the L5 STUDY
Appendix 5 : Automated interface for the study L5
Appendix 6�: Results from Fastsearch classed by language and compared
Appendix 7�: Selection criteria for the terms
Appendix 8�: Count results for each variant by term and by search engine
Appendix 9�: Count results of the terms by search engine

TABLE REFERENCES
In the main document�:

Table 1 : Average figures for Latin languages (and German) compared to English
Table 2 : Absolute presence of the languages studied on the Web
Table 3 : Presence of the studied languages (figures shown in millions)
Table 4 : Weighted presence of the studied languages on the WWW
Table 5 : Number of web surfers classed by language (in millions)
Table 6 : Productivity of speakers
Table 7 : Details of the statistical results
Table 8 : Hypothesis of the evolution of the weighting of the languages studied
Table 9 : Evolution of the relationships of the weighting between English, French and Spanish
Table 10 : Results of the Inktomi study (February 2000)

In the appendices :

Table 11 : Results from Google and Fastsearch for January 2001
Table 12 : Extrapolation of the growth of languages on the Web
Table 13 : Recap and references to various studies carried out by the authors
Table 14 : Graph showing the intervals of reliability
Table 15 : List of the terms in the reference sample
Table 16 : Results of the study for the 6 selected search engines
Table 17 : Results from Fastsearch classed by language
Table 18 : Linguistic selection criteria for the terms of the sample