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mikedep333
October 26th, 2007, 01:56 PM
Great news. Check out google trends for the search term "ubuntu":
http://www.google.com/trends?q=ubuntu&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

http://www.google.com/trends/viz?q=ubuntu&date=all&geo=all&graph=weekly_img&ctab=0&sa=N

Ubuntu has gradually become more popular over time, and experienced a small boost after each release. However this time it experienced a huge boost. Is Gutsy (7.10) going to greatly enhance Ubuntu's user base?

Also, compare this to our competitors:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=ubuntu%2C+suse%2C+red+hat%2C+pclinuxos&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
We are blowing other distros away! (especially PCLinuxOS)

Windows Vista seems to have stopped gaining ground, and we're ahead.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=ubuntu%2C+windows+vista&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

mikedep333
October 26th, 2007, 01:58 PM
Never mind this post.

daynah
October 26th, 2007, 02:05 PM
I think it will die down and go back on its steady rise, like it has all the previous times. Each release has had a boost bigger than the last release's boost.

gdoutch
October 26th, 2007, 02:06 PM
Can't you change it by Modifying the message?

mikedep333
October 26th, 2007, 02:09 PM
Can't you change it by Modifying the message?

You're right, I changed the title by going into advanced.

sr20ve
October 26th, 2007, 05:48 PM
I remember using Google way back in 2000. I liked it because it was the only search engine with no ads.

quixotic-cynic
October 26th, 2007, 09:44 PM
http://www.scroogle.org/scraper.html No ads.

n3tfury
October 26th, 2007, 10:01 PM
considering text relevent ads are their biggest revenue, i don't mind them. as a matter of fact, i don't even notice them anymore. some of you cry about the stupidest things.

Namtabmai
October 26th, 2007, 10:08 PM
Here's the google trends for google.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=google&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

You'll notice a few minor dips but generally a steady increase. Now what gets me is not the increase but the fact that this data is based off googles search queries. So this means more and more people are using google to find... well google?

American_Outcast
October 26th, 2007, 10:21 PM
I don't mind ads. Well Text ads are fine. The ads I don't like and ignore are, for example, those ads that follow you when you are browsing or float from one side of the page to the middle as you are trying to read the webpage or the ones that keep popping up in your face..

Ads are fine and normal. But intrusive ads keep me away from many websites.

I am concerned about Google and the amount of information that they collect from people. My concerns are not about them but how governments, including my government, will force companies like Google to give that information to officials so they can spy on people. Now I am not talking about these governments collecting real information about criminal activity. I am talking about the abuse of the average citizen. (And if anyone says that, "If you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to worry about....." Well if you live in the United States of America then you shouldn't be saying or thinking like that, that is NOT our way.)

Sorry, went a little off topic.

Over all I like Google. And text ads are fine. Some of them have even been useful from time to time. But flashy in your face ones have to go.

American_Outcast
October 26th, 2007, 10:25 PM
Scroogle for Firefox


http://jeffwinkler.net/2006/08/11/

macogw
October 26th, 2007, 11:24 PM
Here's the google trends for google.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=google&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

You'll notice a few minor dips but generally a steady increase. Now what gets me is not the increase but the fact that this data is based off googles search queries. So this means more and more people are using google to find... well google?

i've googled for the thing about google suing ms about desktop search...

mikedep333
October 27th, 2007, 12:35 AM
going away from the google discussion and back to Ubuntu's popularity...

quixotic-cynic
October 27th, 2007, 03:35 PM
I guess the deal with Dell helped matters. I'm sure it was announced in more mainstream news sources and thus gave Ubuntu more publicity.