Google Trends

If you have any doubt that Linux is more important than Unix, take a peek at http://www.google.com/trends?q=unix%2C+linux.

Google Trends (which is what the above link is) lets you chart and compare search terms. Let's try Mac OS X vs. Windows XP.. hmm, looks like the East and West coast liberals might be Mac lovers, while the MidWest is less interested. On the other hand, Vista vs. Mac OS X generally shows little interest in Macs except, strangely, in New York.

You can also just use this to find data for individual search terms. Apparently SCO Unix is still fairly popular in Inda, but notice the downward trend.

By the way, folks in Delhi, India seem to be much more interested in sex than those staid midwesterners in Chicago. Does Windows dampen one's libido?

At least one web site suggests using this trend data as inspiration for writing. I don't like that: if you have two subjects you'd like to write about, I suppose you may as well choose the more popular of the two, but I can't see letting this choose your subject matter.

All very interesting..

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Fri May 12 15:51:05 2006:   BigDumbDinosaur


By the way, folks in Delhi, India seem to be much more interested in sex than those staid midwesterners in Chicago.

You don't need a computer to tell you that. Just look at the population difference. <Grin>


In any case, we Chicagoans might appear to be staid, but once you shove aside the Roman Catholic church (with its own weird sex issues) and its vise-like grip on Chicago politics, you'll find we can forn...er...multiply with the best of 'em. <DirtyGrin>




Fri May 12 16:15:10 2006:   TonyLawrence


Well, lack of search interest doesn't imply lack of ability.. perhaps the folks in Delhi have more need to search :-)



Sat May 13 16:28:21 2006:   BigDumbDinosaur


perhaps the folks in Delhi have more need to search

In other words, what you're saying is that they need to er...bone up on the subject. (Sorry for lame pun!)


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