Counting google searches might be a statistic but it’s not really saying what you think it does
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I stumbled on a page today that used data from Google trends to determine Which Linux Distributions Are Dying?. (Google trends is a Google application that allows you to plot how often a certain phrase has been searched on Google’s search engine in a certain time.) He shows that searches for “Debian”, “Red Hat”, “Fedora”, “Suse”, “OpenSuse” and “Slackware” are all decreasing, that “Ubuntu” is raising an actually almost overtaking “linux” as a search term. His interpretation of the numbers is
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