[OT] Google Trends

[Antonio Montagnani]

2006/5/13, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>:
> On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 07:36 -0700, Don Russell wrote:
> > Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 20:19 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 19:42, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> The folks at Red Hat may want to take a look at
> > >>> http://www.google.com/trends.
> > >>>
> > >>> Entering "red hat, suse, fedora, debian" produces results that may be of
> > >>> interest to them.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >> Or for more optimistic trends, try ubuntu or centos...
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >>   Les Mikesell
> > >>     lesmikesell at gmail.com
> > >>
> > >>
> > > However these would be more usefull if there were values on the vertical
> > > axis. Or have I been reading "How to lie with statistics" for too long?
> > >
> >
> > The charts compare two or more items (in this case 4).... the value or
> > scale used doesn't matter, as long as it's the same scale and values for
> > each item tracked.
> >
> > I found it interesting to see search requests for redhat steadily
> > declining, while searches for the other three distros are very close...
> > and almost flat overall.
> >
> > As for raw numbers in this case... I'm not interested... it's trend
> > analysis.... how does one compare to another over time... maybe this is
> > telling us to "short sell redhat stock". ;-)
> ----
> it would be impossible to infer anything of significance beyond the
> trend (google searches for red hat, et. al.) and it takes nothing else
> into account (were the searches for help in which case perhaps the help
> resources are improving to the point of people relying less upon google
> to find help), familiarity with the Red Hat brand/name (less people
> needing to find out who Red Hat is), etc.
>
> FWIW, Microsoft too is trending downward. It doesn't mean anything.
>
> Nice exercise in nothing though
>
> Craig
>
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and if you digit redhat instead of red hat, results change a lot!!!!
nonsense anyway

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Antonio Montagnani
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