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Posted by anthonyberet on 10/13/19 11:47
Don M. wrote:
> "ChenHA" <hzhen@freeuk.com> wrote in message news:446554C0.B567DBC0@freeuk.com...
>> Something new from Google and a great way of wasting your time. Here's
>> the search volume for WinMX -
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>> http://www.google.com/trends?q=winmx&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all
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>> For some reasons Italians loves WinMX, so did the Japanese.
>>
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> I guess they stay with something that works for them instead of jumping ship to the latest
> and prettiest at the drop of a HAT. I think OpenNap and chat are two features that have
> kept WinMX popular in Italy. The WinMX Italia site is still very active while sites such
> as WinMX Central have left the building.
> The chat function is also big in Japan, where chat tools have been developed for the WPN.
> But then, my feet would be very big in Japan too, so I'm not sure if popularity in Google
> searches would necessarily correlate with a program's popularity.
>
>> Compare with other p2p
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>> http://www.google.com/trends?q=winmx%2C+kazaa%2C+bittorrent&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all
>>
That's a predictable spike around September of last year, when the
official cache servers went off.
Oddly there is no corresponding spike in the news graph.
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