That's why this booklet selects the some of the more informative Internet resources about diabetes. Companies make up the largest group of sites and often have information not only about their products but also about the disease. Almost every company selling anything to health-care professionals and individuals with diabetes has a Web site. Organizations, whether international, national, or local, are also well represented on the Web. In the past two years I've seen a large growth in the number of Web sites maintained by universities, hospitals, and physicians specializing in diabetes.
Many individuals too have diabetes-related Web sites.
Less well represented are governments and international organizations. Most Web pages are in English, reflecting the number of English-speakers using this medium. But the number of diabetes-related Web pages in languages other than English, particularly in German and Spanish, has grown rapidly in the past two years. Also represented are pages in Chinese, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Portuguese, Norwegian, and Swedish. Few site mangers are forthcoming about who and how many people use their sites or even keep good records.