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Dennis Jones is a Jamaican-born international economist, who has lived most of the time in the UK and USA, and latterly in Guinea, west Africa. He moved back to the Caribbean in 2007. This blog contains his observations on life on this small eastern Caribbean island, as well as views on life and issues on a broader landscape, especially the Caribbean and Africa.

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Sunday, September 20, 2009

Mind Bloggling! Why Are Indians So Interested In Barbados?

I will be brief. Take a look at the Alexa statistics on the left side of this blog. Look very carefully, now. Look at the site information for the five local blogs cited. Now, I ask you, how do Barbadian blogs get to be so popular in India? I wonder if the Indians are really reading what is on the pages, or if these are robots searching and finding whatever it is that robots are looking for and like to eat. If India is so popular, why not China? We know that in the world of cyberspace and Internet use, India's one billion people must soon be a factor to deal with (see article), but I am not convinced that its interest in things Bajan is kosher--sorry for the religious cross over. Is this nothing more than the blogs concerned being pulled along by a train that has nothing to do with things Bajan but has much to do with things popular?

4 comments:

Khadija said...
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Dennis Jones said...

Khadija,

Perhaps you do not know of India's role in outsourcing, including for Internet activity. The reference to robots is to the fact that search engines located in India that just scour the net may be the reason why "India" is so prominent as a source of hits on a website. It has nothing to do with Indians at all, or in fact with any real human activity, and may reflect a lot of 'spam' connections. That's the point being made. So, one needs to read the statistics as having an element that is largely air.

Khadija said...

sorry but i misread the article in full.....reading it over i now really understand it...hope its not a bug to u...btw i always check ur blogs...and thanx 4 replying.

Dennis Jones said...

Khadija, I'm glad that you checked back and saw the comments. Glad to have you as a regular reader, and no problems at all with the misunderstanding.