Google Trends's trends on operating systems

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jdereus

Hello,

I found some interesting results on Google Trends. It seems there's less interest in these systems.

http://www.google.com/trends?q=freebsd
http://www.google.com/trends?q=linux
http://www.google.com/trends?q=solaris

I found similar results on 'Red Hat'. The topics 'centos' and 'ubuntu' are doing very well.

I was looking for systems that are increasingly interesting the crowd. I think that people are looking for 'appliances'. Even in FreeBSD. Have a look at this:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=pfsense
http://www.google.com/trends?q=maemo
http://www.google.com/trends?q=android


What measurable trends have you seen online?
 
Well, I tried "sicromoft", "BeefRSD", & "xilnu" and frakly those gurgle trends are pretty useless for us in the Real World.
 
You mean that the start and existence of the FreeBSD Forums, which are indexed by Google every second of every hour of every day, and which probably contain the word 'FreeBSD' a hundred thousand times and turn up in almost every FreeBSD-related search, fail to cause even the slightest peak in these trends? That's bull.
 
What are overall google search trend?

DutchDaemon said:
You mean that the start and existence of the FreeBSD Forums, which are indexed by Google every second of every hour of every day, and which probably contain the word 'FreeBSD' a hundred thousand times and turn up in almost every FreeBSD-related search, fail to cause even the slightest peak in these trends? That's bull.
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I guess everyone knows forums.freebsd.org by now and use forums search. lol
 
killasmurf86 said:
I guess everyone knows forums.freebsd.org by now and use forums search. lol
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Very many times google returns forum threads as the first results for searches, especially when FreeBSD is a key word.

However I still believe that DD has gotten it wrong, how many times FreeBSD is mentioned on the forums is irrelevant, rather google trends represents the number of searches which contain freebsd.
 
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