Linux-Watch: Where Linux is Hot, and Where It's Not | Linux Today

Linux-Watch: Where Linux is Hot, and Where It’s Not

Written By
SJV
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Jul 20, 2006

[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols
for this link. ]

“Do you think you know, I mean really know, where Linux is
popular and where it’s not? I did, and you know what? I was wrong.
I found out, thanks to a new feature from Google: Google
Trends.

“With Google Trends, you can enter in a word or a term, and find
out where it’s popular. So, for example, if you entered ‘Steelers,’
it wouldn’t surprise anyone who knows anything about American
football that Pittsburgh is the city where the most people are
Googling the guys in black-and-gold…”

Complete
Story

SJV

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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