Linux Wins the Latest Google Count
After a search on Google yielded more results for Linux than Windows, it was easy to get carried away.
Yesterday I was doing some research on
Google and thought I'd compare the number of results for different
words and phrases. Here are a few of the surprising results:
- Linux, 47,100,000
- Windows, 43,800,000
- UNIX, 12,200,000
- Open Source, 2,740,000
- Free software, 1,760,000
That's how far I got before the kid came home from school.
But when I picked the job back up this morning, the results had
changed:
- Linux, 51,700,000
- Windows, 46,700,000
- UNIX, 13,000,000
- Open Source, 2,810,000
- Free software, 1,780,000
That piqued my curiosity, so I began searching for a whole
pile of words. The results might not be meaningful, but they're
still interesting:
- US, 244,000,000
- site, 200,000,000
- UK, 75,300,000
- sex, 82,600,000
- love, 49,800,000
- Canada, 35,100,000
- Microsoft, 29,200,000
- Japan, 26,800,000
- HP (including Hewlett Packard), 25,560,000
- death, 24,800,000
- fun, 24,200,000
- Australia, 22,300,000
- China, 21,900,000
- Germany, 18,500,000
- England, 16,400,000
- IBM, 16,300,000
- Russia, 10,800,000
- GNU, 9,040,000
- Debian, 9,620,000
- Apple, 8,940,000
- fear, 8,800,000
- drugs, 8,170,000
- coffee, 7,830,000
- commands, 7,370,000
- Finland, 6,920,000
- Solaris, 6,540,000
- Compaq, 5,460,000
- chicken, 5,100,000
- smoke, 4,840,000
- GNOME, 4,810,000
- United States, 4,610,000
- KDE, 4,540,000
- OS X, 4,060,000
- BSD, 3,190,000
- SourceForge, 3,800,000
- SuSE, 3,660,000
- beef, 3,000,000
- Mandrake, 2,840,000
- foo, 2,180,000
- girlfriend, 2,150,000
- Red Hat, 2,140,000
- Slashdot, 2,080,000
- VA Software (including VA Linux), 2,043,000
- Bill Clinton, 1,670,000
- penguin, 1,510,000
- boyfriend, 1,450,000
- George W. Bush, 1,260,000
- MacOS, 1,150,000
- Slackware, 1,050,000
- rock & (also and) roll, 894,000
- Caldera, 787,000
- Al Gore, 644,000
- Linus Torvalds, 638,000
- VA Linux, 553,000
- melon, 525,000
- Albert Einstein, 510,000
- LinuxPPC, 294,000
- Turbolinux, 250,000
Okay, that's enough. I have real work to do.Speaking of which, I'm always looking for numbers to stick in
the next LJ Index and elsewhere in the UpFront
section of Linux Journal. If you have any you
want to send along or point us
to, please do.Doc Searls is senior editor
of Linux Journal.
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Comments
Hey dammit you forgot ...
... some incredibly useless figures:
0. Sweden (googlesearch): 9,890,000
1. Current version of "The Great Linux Client Thread" on the NeverWinterNights forums(1): 6
2. Number of posts on each page of above thread: 15
3. Average Number of pages in each version of above thread(2): ~27
4. Current number of viewings of thread v6.0: 2776
5. Current number of pages in v6.0: 8
6. Average number of spinoff threads per version: 5
(1): http://nwn.bioware.com/forums/viewforum.html?forum=42
(2): Each thread is locked by a moderator when it gets too long, now the posters has managed to get a "sticky" thread.
P.S. something tells me that Linux gamers are pretty vocal. D.S.
Re: Linux Wins the Latest Google Count
This is even more interesting if you consider the fact that Windows is a generic term with more than one meaning, whereas Linux is not. So how many of those Google searches are actually pointing to construction supply businesses instead of Microsoft products? :-)
Interesting Google Numbers!
Something interesting to note, on google searching for just Linux gives us the Linux Journal Website at the 5th place (or 6th, depending on your point of view), ahead of quite a few Linux Distros.
Another piece of statistics, on google, people search for:
Linux around 588,100 times a day.
Microsoft: 238,700
Windows: 776,100 (Sorry Doc. Searls!)
Unix: 119,800
Open Source: 13,800
Linux Journal: 400
Linux Magazine: 200
Linux Sex: 0
Linux Security: 2200
Redht: 44700
Debian: 22400
Caldera: 2800
Suse: 15300
Mandrake: 16000
GNOME: 17500
KDE: 17100
BSD: 7700
OS X: 7200
AIX: 15100
Solaris: 80100
Slashdot: 2200
Tux: 3500
Linus Torvalds:200, Linus: 3500, Torvalds: 400
Bill Gates: 9700
Stallman: 0
ESR: 700, Eric Raymond: 600
Alan Cox: 700
Kernel: 37900
Vim: 3900
emacs: 19100
Apache: 61400
IIS: 30500
Sendmail: 26500
qmail: 8100
gimp: 7900
netscape: 106800
konqueror: 900
opera: 55100 (might be a musical opera too!)
galeon: 1100
mozilla: 8600
mpg123: 1100
xmms: 2400
glibc: 2600
rpm: 41400
yast: 200
pine: 16200
elm: 3300
mutt:2900
ibm: 89900
hp: 122600
compaq: 56400
oracle: 132000
intel: 58300
amd: 36200
gcc: 19100
c++: 190800
java: 478200
perl: 118400
j2ee: 118400
ejb: 15400
python: 28500
corba: 13600
.Net: 397200
Are there any important keywords I missed? Nothing should be concluded from these figures except that nothing can be concluded from them. :))
Sumit Dhar
SLMsoft.com
Figures regarding how many times different terms are searched on
Something interesting to note, on google searching for just Linux gives us the Linux Journal Website at the 5th place (or 6th, depending on your point of view), ahead of quite a few Linux Distros.
Another piece of statistics, on google, people search for:
Linux around 588,100 times a day.
Microsoft: 238,700
Windows: 776,100 (Sorry Doc. Searls!)
Unix: 119,800
Open Source: 13,800
Linux Journal: 400
Linux Magazine: 200
Linux Sex: 0
Linux Security: 2200
Redht: 44700
Debian: 22400
Caldera: 2800
Suse: 15300
Mandrake: 16000
GNOME: 17500
KDE: 17100
BSD: 7700
OS X: 7200
AIX: 15100
Solaris: 80100
Slashdot: 2200
Tux: 3500
Linus Torvalds:200, Linus: 3500, Torvalds: 400
Bill Gates: 9700
Stallman: 0
ESR: 700, Eric Raymond: 600
Alan Cox: 700
Kernel: 37900
Vim: 3900
emacs: 19100
Apache: 61400
IIS: 30500
Sendmail: 26500
qmail: 8100
gimp: 7900
netscape: 106800
konqueror: 900
opera: 55100 (might be a musical opera too!)
galeon: 1100
mozilla: 8600
mpg123: 1100
xmms: 2400
glibc: 2600
rpm: 41400
yast: 200
pine: 16200
elm: 3300
mutt:2900
ibm: 89900
hp: 122600
compaq: 56400
oracle: 132000
intel: 58300
amd: 36200
gcc: 19100
c++: 190800
java: 478200
perl: 118400
j2ee: 118400
ejb: 15400
python: 28500
corba: 13600
.Net: 397200
Are there any important keywords I missed? Nothing should be concluded from these figures except that nothing can be concluded from them. :))
Sumit Dhar
SLMsoft.com
Linux Losses @ MSN
Hi,
Just thought I'd check out to see what www.msn.com has to say about all this hoopla.
windows 1508
linux 504
Sorry guys, guess we'll still have to wait...
Re: Linux Wins the Latest Google Count
ixquick.com (i believe is superior to google) gives
linux 49,800,005
windows 45,600,005
marmalade 229,003
Re: Linux Wins the Latest Google Count
"linux journal" - 119,000
"linux magazine" - 84,000
A nude woman, in a bath, holding a bit of your linux...
Sex, sex, sex, we've got to get sex into it somehow...
"linux sex" 328,000
"linux orgasm" 3,820
"linux foreplay" 1,180
So... Google proves that Linux nuts are all insensitive zealots? Simpson's individual penguinettes, anyone? The `now' penguin!
Re: Linux Wins the Latest Google Count
Chicken and smoke are neck and neck. Woo-hoo!! I can hardly wait for next week's results so I'll know what to put my money on when I go to pick up my groceries.
Re: Linux Wins the Latest Google Count
I think there is something to be said for rounding the real total off on google... I mean, the internet is a virtual place, it isn't like the numer no matter how exact would be the same for more than 2 seconds, so who cares about the last three zeros... they are basically insignificant digits I guess... placeholders is all...
Re: Linux Wins the Latest Google Count
How odd. Every one of your search terms ends in at least three zeros.
That's quite unlikely.
Re: Linux Wins the Latest Google Count
Google rounds off gigantic results. Like it'll say 'Results 1-10 of about 300,000'.
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