Linux Wins the Latest Google Count
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.
email: doc@ssc.com
