Re: Improved Google trends comparison

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Feb 23, 2008, 22:21 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0802231407210.21332@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <332FA266-4D12-4ED4-9B38-44577E1E540B@gmail.com>

On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Rhodes, Kate wrote:

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> Jakub was commenting on relative VCS popularity just after the 1.5.4 release.
> This is just an improved (i hope) version of his Google trends link that
> includes the alternate names for subversion, mercurial, and bazaar.
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> http://www.google.com/trends?q=svn%7Csubversion%2C+git%2C+mercurial%7Chg%2C+bzr%7Cbazaar%2C+darcs&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

LOL. Most of these seem totally unrelated to VCS's.

Most of the news that it finds for those "trends" for git are for things like Larry the cable guy's "git-r-done" thing (and "Two more Git-N-GO stores robbed". I'm not sure that's really relevant to the SCM ;)

Similarly, your bzr|bazaar seems to be all about the "bazaar" part, not about the SCM itself (drop "bazaar" from there, and the trends are very different, especially for that huge peak in India).

And "hg" seems to be about HG Wells and HG BISSINGER and Sandisk/Sony "Memory Stick Pro-HG" Format, based on the news hits and on the fact that the "trend" has actually stayed fairly constant since 2004, and since hg the VCS was started in 2005, it's either a sign of finding something else, _or_ about the incredible prescient powers of internet users.

But the SVN hits might actually be about subversion.

So if you do just the trend for bzr and svn, I think you have something.

			Linus