 The Web is clearly a multilingual corpus.It is estimated that 71% of the pages (453 million out of 634 million Web pages indexed by the Excite engine) were written in English, followed by Japanese (6.8%), German (5.1%), French (1.8%), Chinese (1.5%), Spanish (1.1%), Italian (0.9%), and Swedish (0.7%).A test to find contiguous words like ‘deep breath’ revealed 868,631 Web pages containing the terms in AlltheWeb.