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At the end of an article I wrote on my site, I asked, “What’s with all the excellent Dutchmen?” because I seemed to be using quite a lot of add-ons built near canals.

I’ve just been playing around with Google Insights, and entering the term “expressionengine” for a worldwide search produces the following list outlining interest levels:

Netherlands: 100
Australia: 99
United States: 98
Canada: 98
United Kingdom: 88
Germany: 47

There were no other countries with a score beyond zero.

Switching to a city-based list:

San Francisco (United States): 100
Amsterdam (Netherlands): 77
Sydney (Australia): 71
New York (United States): 70
London (United Kingdom): 66
Toronto (Canada): 53

Either way, the Dutch affinity to ExpressionEngine is striking. No accident then that EECI is there.

Interestingly, the term “expression engine” produces a quite a different pair of lists:

New Zealand: 100
Ireland: 95
United Kingdom: 78
United States: 78
Australia: 69
Canada: 64
Netherlands: 59
India: 58
Belgium: 44
Germany: 18

And

San Francisco (United States): 100
London (United Kingdom): 70
New York (United States): 67
Los Angeles (United States): 59
Washington (United States): 56
Sydney (Australia): 53
Amsterdam (Netherlands): 51
Toronto (Canada): 46
Chicago (United States): 44
Atlanta (United States): 44

Amsterdam drops way down the list. Not only can they write add-ons, then can spell the system’s name.

On a procrastinatory whim I tried “wordpress” and was very surprised:

Indonesia: 100
Malaysia: 47
Nepal: 44
Singapore: 43
Bangladesh: 38
Cambodia: 37
Philippines: 36
Sri Lanka: 28
Belarus: 27
Mongolia: 27

Offshore subcontractors all? The city view looks more realistic:

Jakarta (Indonesia): 100
Singapore (Singapore): 44
San Francisco (United States): 29
Los Angeles (United States): 20
New York (United States): 20
Madrid (Spain): 19
Toronto (Canada): 18
London (United Kingdom): 18
Amsterdam (Netherlands): 17
Milan (Italy): 16

OK I guess I should get back to work. Interesting also that SF is consistently ahead of NYC, and that Brits can’t spell their own language. But I knew that already.

Interesting research you’ve done there.  For tech I think it’s no surprise that for a web product that Amsterdam/Netherlands comes high or at the top of the list.  I know around here most of the web conferences I see advertised are in The Netherlands, Amsterdam in particular.  We also get quite a few of them here in Munich, Germany and we just had the international PHP conference in Karlsruhe, Germany, not far from Munich.

Thank you for posting your findings 😊

I think its not the water in Adam,
it must be the grass :p

I think we just recognize quality products 😉