[Tfug] Google trends..

[Marco Savo]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Andrew Ayre <andy at britishideas.com> wrote:

> Try changing one of the other items, such as "free software" for "ubuntu"
> and you will see an increase over time.
>
> I think as more people use Ubuntu they are more likely to search for
> problems that relate to their distro rather than general linux problems.
>
> Interestingly the handful of other distros that I tried show a decline over
> time. Same for Gnome and KDE.
>
> Perhaps as linux users tend to be more technical in their background they
> are more aware of specific sites for the distros they are interested in -
> for example www.ubuntuforums.org? These visits won't be recorded in Google
> trends, right? So maybe the Google trends info has to be carefully
> interpreted...
>
> Andy
>
> Marco Savo wrote:
>
>>
>> http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=unix%2Copen%20source%2Cfree%20software%2Clinux&cmpt=q<
>> http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=unix%2Copen%20source%2Cfree%20software%2Clinux&cmpt=q
>> >
>>
>> Interesting the decreasing interest in Linux...
>>
>
> --
> Andy


http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=ubuntu%2Bkubuntu%2Csuse%2Bopensuse%2Cfedora%2B%22red%20hat%22%2Cdebian%2CBSD%2Bfreebsd%2Bnetbsd%2Bopenbsd%2B%22DragonFly%20BSD%22&cmpt=q

Right. Happy to see that my Italy is the most interested! maybe I should go
back.
But this isn't a research data, but can give us some interesting hint

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