<tt>I have been doing some "Google" research using news, Google and blogs on</tt> <tt>topics such asUbuntu, GNOME, KDE, and Linux for the past couple of weeks and here's </tt><tt>something I put out recently on couple of boards </tt><tt>after manually typing in keywords. It's very similar to the Google "mind share" concept </tt><tt>program. The difference is that by combining Google, Google News and Google Blogs, one can spot some interesting</tt> <tt>trends and hopefully use it for marketing or research. </tt> <tt>Google News: The world Linux GNOME appeared more than Linux KDE in the</tt> <tt>past few days. Red Hat consistently has been in the news twice as many </tt><tt>times as SuSE and reporters seem to like Ubuntu more than Mandriva and Linspire. </tt> <tt>Google: This gets really interesting. There are 435 million times Linux</tt> <tt>appeared on Google vs. Microsoft 716 million -- that's fantastic. KDE is </tt><tt>15% more popular than GNOME on Google search. </tt><tt></tt><tt>It gets even more interesting: Ubuntu (with the word linux) is more</tt> <tt>popular than "Linux Mandriva" and neck and neck with "Linux Mandrake". </tt> <tt></tt><tt>Google Blog: This is Google's new service so the results could be</tt> <tt>spurious. Also, Blog writing could be popular in certain countries, so </tt><tt>the results may not be that accurate. But: </tt><tt> SuSE is neck and neck with RH and Ubuntu is </tt><tt>getting super popular with bloggers -- 12,000 + blogs vs. 17000 for Debian.</tt> Rajiv