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Not so easy
Not so easy
Posted Apr 15, 2007 13:13 UTC (Sun) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)In reply to: Not so easy by khim
Parent article: Debian redefines itself with new release (Linux.com)
Linux is in decline compared to all search traffic.Hmmm... So, it's perfectly possible that other distros have not lost users, but Ubuntu has grown the installed base?
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Not so easy
Posted Apr 15, 2007 13:47 UTC (Sun) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]
Hmmm... So, it's perfectly possible that other distros have not lost users, but Ubuntu has grown the installed base?
May be. Search traffic is growing, Linux/Ubuntu/Debian searches are probably all growing too - but can we be sure that means number of users is growing too ? Nope: we need outside data. We do know that people were switching to Google in this period, we probably are using search engines more often today then we did yesterday, etc. That's why absolute values will give us more info about Google then they will give us info about Linux/Ubuntu/Debian... Relative values are quite reliable - unless masochistic Ubuntu users do 10 times more searches while trying to fix endless problems... Possible but highly unlikely...