[ale] Google Trends

Jim Popovitch jimpop at yahoo.com
Fri Jan 5 01:14:15 EST 2007


On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 00:47 -0500, Brian Pitts wrote:
> Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts wrote:
> > Question:
> >
> > Based on data shown on the URL below, what are your thoughts on what it
> > means?
> >
> > http://www.google.com/trends?q=fedora,ubuntu,suse,redhat,novell
> >
> If you look at this as just measuring buzz or curiosity, also 
> interesting is 
> http://www.google.com/trends?q=leopard%2Cfedora%2Cubuntu%2Cvista

I dunno about that.  That data suggests that Windows Vista is
outperforming other OSes in searches.  However, This URL seems to
suggest (at least to me) that "vista" is a keyword for more than just
Windows Vista.  I would expect to see similarly high results for "winXP"
within the past few years as we see recently for "vista"

http://www.google.com/trends?q=win95,win98,win2k,winXP,vista

-Jim P.






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