[Mithaldu]

Adding english costs, depending on what your site is, roughly a half, to two employees, since, for one, the developers have to implement localization, which is not easy, and everything has to be translated. In most german companies i've worked at people were able to understand written english a little, but were unable to produce fluid english. So you have to hire translators. It might be easier in other countries.

> Americans will overlook grammatical errors.

I'm saying without proper translators you end up with engrish.

> Why is the Internet lacking in Germany? Is it because there are few German sites?

General lack of interest, and smaller set of offers.

Keep in mind that the east half of germany didn't even have a telephone net into most people's houses until 1989, when germany was reunified. As for the content: Just recently it was brought up that in the usa elder people increasingly turn to youtube. An example brought up was a wealth of wood-working videos. Trying to find german wood-working videos on youtube only gives you semi-commercial advertisements for big machines.