08.27.08
Tale of the Feeble Selling Out (Google Trends)
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John Ball said,
August 27, 2008 at 1:06 pm
What is the point of this?? What does this show?
Roy Schestowitz said,
August 27, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Search volume (Google Trends, as the subject indicates).
Sebastiaan Veld said,
August 28, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Mnnn, search trends for ‘redhat’ are even worse.. does that mean they are about to go out of business also?
Roy Schestowitz said,
August 28, 2008 at 2:58 pm
Sebastiaan,
I didn’t look that up. Trust me, I haven’t hidden data which does not fit my hypothesis, so thanks for pointing that out.