[ale] Google Trends

[Jerry Yu]

the motivation and purpose of the search varies. For instance, the declining
of Redhat in google search could simply result from the fact the RHEL people
are more likely to get their support from their support contract, while
people who originally searched for RHL support now search for Fedora support
instead?
Or, this could be use a gauge of  how well a distro matches its target
audience and how an audience reacts to a mismatch of sorts.


On 1/4/07, Robert Reese <ale at sixit.com> wrote:
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> On 1/4/2007 at 11:18 PM James P. Kinney III wrote:
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> >It looks like more and more people are having trouble with Ubuntu and
> >are using google for help.
>
> Or, more and more inexperienced users are picking Ubuntu to try, and are
> turning to Google for help.
>
>
> >It looks like problems with RedHat are not
> >being searched for with google as much as they use to be.
>
> In other words, RH popularity is declining, and FC is replacing
> it.  :c)  I'm willing to bet that the spikes on the Fedora line represent
> releases, which look slightly symetric.
>
>
> >Novell is
> >_still_ just limping along.
>
> What is it people are looking for in Novell?  More than likely it isn't
> Linux, but rather GroupWise and Netware.  In order to find more, you'd have
> to instruct Google Trends to compare and contrast Novell+Netware,
> Novell+Linux, Novell+Suse, and Novell+Groupwise.
>
>
> As an aside, you know what's scary?  It looks like Google never dumps
> data.  Every search ever done is likely still in a database or three
> (thousand).  Yikes!
>
> Cheers,
> Robert Reese~
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