Re: indirect info on linux usage

Matt Giwer wrote:
A year or three after I started using linux I produced some tux based
linux wallpaper and put them on my website.

For three years the most common successful search terms leading people to
my site involved the words, linux tux wallpaper. If I put them all
together there were more successful queries based upon those than for
anything on the rest of the 295M wide-ranging material.

Note these are simply keyword query results. They have no relation to
downloads of the wallpaper and do not convey either 'awesome' or 'aw***'
opinions of them. It indicates only what people were searching for.

The drop in such queries MAY indicate a decline in new linux users. I
remember searching for wallpaper when I started using it.

This would mirror the stabilization in user share indicated by other
sources.

I doubt I am representative of the Linux community, but I _never_ did a
search for wallpapers. I just go to alt.binaries.pictures.supermodels on the
UseNet. Of course, some people would not want the stuff that is found there.
Most of it I would not want either. But even though I have been using a
windowing interface to Linux for about 10 years now, finding more wallpaper
is the least of my worries.

So I doubt you can infer much from the number of hits your site gets by
those looking for wallpaper. I would guess that most Linux users have
something else to do.

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