[TxMt] Another Editor War Sparked by TextMate

[Andy Armstrong]

On 10 Nov 2006, at 15:45, Ed Singleton wrote:
>> From the regional section of that chart I'm guessing 'Textmate' is a
> Philippino term for porn or something...

I *think* that this:

> Keep in mind that instead of measuring overall interest in a topic,  
> Google Trends shows users' propensity to search for that topic on  
> Google on a relative basis. For example, just because a particular  
> region isn't on the Top Regions list for the term "haircut" doesn't  
> necessarily mean that people there have decided to stage a mass  
> rebellion against society's conventions. It could be that people in  
> that region might not use Google to find a barber, use a different  
> term when doing their searches, or simply search for so many other  
> topics unrelated to haircuts that searches for "haircut" make up a  
> very small portion of the search volume from that region when  
> compared to other regions.
(from http://www.google.com/intl/en/trends/about.html#4)

implies that maybe it wouldn't take a huge absolute number of  
searches to swing the city / region / language results. Not sure though.

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Andy Armstrong, hexten.net