[OT] Google Trends

[Les Mikesell]

On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 08:22, Aaron Konstam 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...
> > 
> > 
> 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.

I don't think you could draw any conclusions even if you knew the
absolute numbers.  It might just mean that everyone knows where
to find RedHat info by now but they have to search for newcomers.

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  Les Mikesell
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