__/ [ wd ] on Thursday 11 May 2006 14:34 \__
> On Thu, 11 May 2006 13:50:40 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> __/ [ wd ] on Thursday 11 May 2006 13:38 \__
>>
>>> On Thu, 11 May 2006 13:00:57 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>
>>>> __/ [ wd ] on Thursday 11 May 2006 12:56 \__
>>>
>>>>> For 'search engine optimization' India and Philippines were the
>>>>> leading regions by far...
>>>>
>>>> Intersting. When I tried it earlier (hours after it was announced) I
>>>> could only get U.S. States and Canadian provinces. It was somewhat
>>>> uninteresting because of social, cultural, racial, and political
>>>> uniformity. I wonder if they scale the bars based on population size or
>>>> some other factor.
>>>
>>> That is an interesting idea.
>>
>>
>> Check out this new analysis, which I have come across just a couple of
>> minutes ago:
>>
>>
http://abhishekkant.blogspot.com/2006/05/whats-more-popular-microsoft-or-linux.html
>>
>> I think it illustrates the value of this new service.
>
> Looks interesting. I will have to read it more closely tomorrow. It's
> past 3am and I'm falling asleep at the keyboard :S
>
> I won't risk saying the "L***x word" in here again, but that 'Google PhD'
> guy was really interesting. He hadn't even touched a MS computer in
> something like 3 years. Avoided it like the plague.
>
> Try this one:
> http://www.google.com/trends?q=microsoft%2C+linux&ctab=1&date=all&geo=all
>
> Then adjust for number of users for each OS. Looks promising.
That's a nice picture, but I already posted the following to COLA:
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| According to Google Trends©
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| http://www.google.com/trends?q=windows%2C+xp&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all
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Say what you will...
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