Re: Efforts to attract more users?

[Lennart Borgman]

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Stefan Monnier
<address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> I'm not sure if Emacs is attracting new users the way it used to be.
>>>> Certainly search volume has been going downhill for more than several years
>>>> (http://www.google.com/trends?q=emacs),
>>> What are the units in the vertical direction?
>> 1.0 is the mean of the period
>
> So units are a ratio w.r.t all the searches.  Is there a way to know the
> actual number of searches to which this corresponds?  This way we could
> tell whether the number of searches is also going down (since it might
> still be going up if the ratio is going down slower than the total
> number of searches increases).


Seems like google does not want to display the absolute numbers:

 http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/06/google-trends-with-numbers.html

It also looks like Emacs is loosing ground to vim:

 http://www.google.com/trends?q=emacs,vim&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

Adding "eclipse" to the search shows that Eclipse is going up and that
both vim and emacs are searched for much less ....

Though the sun seems to be included in the eclipse searches. ;-)