Largest U.S. Websites Get More Foreign Traffic

[alphamale]

Google, Microsoft Corp, and Yahoo are among 14 of the top 25 U.S. Web properties that attract more foreign traffic than Web surfers from the U.S., a market research company said Thursday.

full story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20061110/tc_cmp/193700359

[Olney]

It's common knowledge that YouTube had the Japanese market Which Google Video didn't.
Google even registered the dot jp (Google Video)
It's one of those huge perks that people don't really know about.

[alphamale]

“As Internet usage outside the U.S. has grown rapidly from a small base, the U.S. share of the world’s online population has fallen from 65 percent to less than 25 percent in the last 10 years,” said Bob Ivins, managing director of comScore Europe. “The fact that more than three-quarters of the traffic to Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft is now coming from outside of the U.S. is indicative of what a truly global medium the Internet has become.”

heres the detail: http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=1057

check out Wikipedia.