On May 10, 2006, at 6:52 PM, Nicholas Orr wrote:
So why is TextMate so popular in the Philippines?
http://www.google.com/trends?q=textmate&ctab=1&date=all&geo=all
http://www.google.com/trends?q=textmate&ctab=2&date=all&geo=all
Trevor
On May 10, 2006, at 8:49 PM, Trevor Harmon wrote:
So why is TextMate so popular in the Philippines?
http://www.google.com/trends?q=textmate&ctab=1&date=all&geo=all
http://www.google.com/trends?q=textmate&ctab=2&date=all&geo=all
After some more Googling, it appears there may be a name collision here. "Textmate" = a friend you exchange text messages with. This may have tainted the graph, and TextMate might not be overtaking BBEdit after all.
Trevor
On 11/5/2006, at 6:00, Trevor Harmon wrote:
[...] After some more Googling, it appears there may be a name collision here. "Textmate" = a friend you exchange text messages with. This may have tainted the graph, and TextMate might not be overtaking BBEdit after all.
The graph is somewhat consistent with my sales graph, and the first two pages of hits (when searching for ‘textmate’) is only linking to stuff about the text editor (the third page has one non-editor link, but it seems to be a generic spam site).
On 11/5/2006, at 18:18, Trevor Harmon wrote:
The graph is somewhat consistent with my sales graph
I am still wondering about the Philippines connection. Do you get a lot of sales from the Philippines?
I don’t have any geographical breakdown, as I don’t record the origin country of each sale.
The overrepresentation of Philippines is strange, and would imply the tainting of the phrase, or maybe just rather weak data for Google’s breakdown.
It is also puzzling that Denmark and Sweden each have twice as many searches as the US, when each country host around five million people, and half my sales are from the US [1].
Of course Denmark could be because I am from Denmark, but AFAIK no “local” media has mentioned TextMate here.
[1] I know that because the US transaction fee is lower.
After some google investigation:
"Textmate" seems to be a term used for the person you text-message with (see http://www.finlandembassy.ph/texting6.htm). There are forums in the Philippines where you can meet a "textmate" to chat with.
Jeff.
On May 11, 2006, at 12:32 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
On 11/5/2006, at 18:18, Trevor Harmon wrote:
The graph is somewhat consistent with my sales graph
I am still wondering about the Philippines connection. Do you get a lot of sales from the Philippines?
I don’t have any geographical breakdown, as I don’t record the origin country of each sale.
The overrepresentation of Philippines is strange, and would imply the tainting of the phrase, or maybe just rather weak data for Google’s breakdown.
It is also puzzling that Denmark and Sweden each have twice as many searches as the US, when each country host around five million people, and half my sales are from the US [1].
Of course Denmark could be because I am from Denmark, but AFAIK no “local” media has mentioned TextMate here.
[1] I know that because the US transaction fee is lower. ______________________________________________________________________ For new threads USE THIS: textmate@lists.macromates.com (threading gets destroyed and the universe will collapse if you don't) http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate
And from that same link:
"The Philippines is now the texting capital of the world. Meryll Lynch reports that for the first quarter of 2001 there were approximately 7.2 million cellphone subscribers in the Philippines: 2.9 million (40.6%) of them were held by Globe, 3.4 million (48.5%) by Smart Communications and 788,000 (10.9%) by Pilipinas Telephone Corp. (Smart's sister company). For this period, the average SMS transmission was about 65.4 million a day. In 2002 Nokia estimates that there are around 10 million cellphones in the Philippines, transmitting about 100 million text messages a day. While the absolute number of cellphones is not large by international standards, the number of text messages sent by subscribers is double the world average."
Ahh, google fun.
Jeff.
On May 11, 2006, at 12:38 PM, Jeffrey Robert Spies wrote:
After some google investigation:
"Textmate" seems to be a term used for the person you text-message with (see http://www.finlandembassy.ph/texting6.htm). There are forums in the Philippines where you can meet a "textmate" to chat with.
Jeff.
On May 11, 2006, at 12:32 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
On 11/5/2006, at 18:18, Trevor Harmon wrote:
The graph is somewhat consistent with my sales graph
I am still wondering about the Philippines connection. Do you get a lot of sales from the Philippines?
I don’t have any geographical breakdown, as I don’t record the origin country of each sale.
The overrepresentation of Philippines is strange, and would imply the tainting of the phrase, or maybe just rather weak data for Google’s breakdown.
It is also puzzling that Denmark and Sweden each have twice as many searches as the US, when each country host around five million people, and half my sales are from the US [1].
Of course Denmark could be because I am from Denmark, but AFAIK no “local” media has mentioned TextMate here.
[1] I know that because the US transaction fee is lower. _____________________________________________________________________ _ For new threads USE THIS: textmate@lists.macromates.com (threading gets destroyed and the universe will collapse if you don't) http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate
For new threads USE THIS: textmate@lists.macromates.com (threading gets destroyed and the universe will collapse if you don't) http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate
After looking at trends for some random phrases the Philippines shows up at the top quite often.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=math%2C+school&ctab=1&date=all&geo=all http://www.google.com/trends?q=nose%2C+ear&ctab=1&date=all&geo=all
Peter
On 5/11/06, Jeffrey Robert Spies jspies@nd.edu wrote:
After some google investigation:
"Textmate" seems to be a term used for the person you text-message with (see http://www.finlandembassy.ph/texting6.htm). There are forums in the Philippines where you can meet a "textmate" to chat with.
Jeff.
On May 11, 2006, at 12:32 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:
On 11/5/2006, at 18:18, Trevor Harmon wrote:
The graph is somewhat consistent with my sales graph
I am still wondering about the Philippines connection. Do you get a lot of sales from the Philippines?
I don't have any geographical breakdown, as I don't record the origin country of each sale.
The overrepresentation of Philippines is strange, and would imply the tainting of the phrase, or maybe just rather weak data for Google's breakdown.
It is also puzzling that Denmark and Sweden each have twice as many searches as the US, when each country host around five million people, and half my sales are from the US [1].
Of course Denmark could be because I am from Denmark, but AFAIK no "local" media has mentioned TextMate here.
[1] I know that because the US transaction fee is lower. ______________________________________________________________________ For new threads USE THIS: textmate@lists.macromates.com (threading gets destroyed and the universe will collapse if you don't) http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate
For new threads USE THIS: textmate@lists.macromates.com (threading gets destroyed and the universe will collapse if you don't) http://lists.macromates.com/mailman/listinfo/textmate
On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 09:46 -0700, Peter Cowan wrote:
After looking at trends for some random phrases the Philippines shows up at the top quite often.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=math%2C+school&ctab=1&date=all&geo=all http://www.google.com/trends?q=nose%2C+ear&ctab=1&date=all&geo=all
I've noticed this trend, as well.
My (crackpot) theory- this is an effect of proxies being used by residents of mainland China.
-ryan
On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 09:46 -0700, Peter Cowan wrote:
After looking at trends for some random phrases the Philippines shows up at the top quite often.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=math%2C+school&ctab=1&date=all&geo=all http://www.google.com/trends?q=nose%2C+ear&ctab=1&date=all&geo=all
I've seen this with other searches, as well. My theory- this is a result of mainland Chinese residents using off-shore proxies to bypass he Great Firewall of China.
-ryan
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