From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 3 11:30:47 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99FB616A41F for ; Sat, 3 Jun 2006 11:30:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mail@ozzmosis.com) Received: from smtp.syd.people.net.au (smtp.syd.people.net.au [218.214.225.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CE4A343D48 for ; Sat, 3 Jun 2006 11:30:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mail@ozzmosis.com) Received: (qmail 6112 invoked from network); 3 Jun 2006 11:31:00 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO blizzard.dnsalias.org) (218.214.144.129) by smtp.syd.people.net.au with SMTP; 3 Jun 2006 11:31:00 -0000 Received: by blizzard.dnsalias.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 501D14BD; Sat, 3 Jun 2006 21:30:40 +1000 (EST) Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 21:30:40 +1000 From: andrew clarke To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060603113040.GA64024@ozzmosis.com> References: <20060602145855.GA1481@scienceclue.ath.cx> <20060602202051.GB51265@ozzmosis.com> <1149280648.5196.8.camel@nova> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1149280648.5196.8.camel@nova> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Subject: Re: is FreeBSD popularity decreasing ?? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2006 11:30:47 -0000 On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 10:37:28PM +0200, Simon Streit wrote: > > Or perhaps less people are using Google to search for "freebsd". > > I agree with you, because I'm quite new to FreeBSD and I hardly never > need Google for any Information when searching. I suspect some truly new people to FreeBSD might also search for "free bsd" (sans quotes). Although that may not really matter. But I don't think Google Trends is a useful measurement for anything. It would not surprise me if FreeBSD's popularity has decreased in favour of Mac OS X, for example. But I don't know how you'd measure that. I suppose you would just need to ask individual people. Not rely on data mining. > Since I think that the > FreeBSD Site is the best designed homepage for any resource of > information for this distribution on comparing other Distribution sites, > why should I use Google when I even know that I will land on the Site > again? True. Or if you've installed it, /usr/share/doc/handbook/, etc.