Posted by ChenHA on 05/20/06 16:15

On Thu, 18 May 2006 20:56:03 GMT, bunanson(nospam)@yahoo.com wrote:

>On Sat, 13 May 2006 04:38:40 +0100, ChenHA <hzhen@freeuk.com> wrote:
>
>>Something new from Google and a great way of wasting your time. Here's
>>the search volume for WinMX -
>>
>>http://www.google.com/trends?q=winmx&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all
>>
>>For some reasons Italians loves WinMX, so did the Japanese.
>>
>>Compare with other p2p
>>
>>http://www.google.com/trends?q=winmx%2C+kazaa%2C+bittorrent&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all
>>
>>eMule vs eDonkey
>>
>>http://www.google.com/trends?q=emule%2C+edonkey&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all
>
>I do not understand the graph, there is NO unit on the y-axis. I
>guess it read as what it said, just a trend, only to see the spike, or
>trend, but not the volume?
>

It is a ratio of the number of searches for a particular search item
over the total number of searches. I don't know why it doesn't give a
number, but I assume that the number would be very small (0.00001 or
something like that). Not really sure why it doesn't give an absolute
number either since that is much simpler and clearer. You can
probably get an idea of the popularity of the search item by searching
it in combination with other search item, for instance -

http://www.google.com/trends?q=sex,+emule&date=all&geo=all&ctab=1&sa=N

or

http://www.google.com/trends?q=winmx%2C+tom+cruise&ctab=2&geo=all&date=all


>emule is mainly for the asian areas, HK, japan, korea etc, they even
>have emule version in chinese.
>

It is probably popular all over, the most popular if Google Trends is
anything to go by -


http://www.google.com/trends?q=limewire%2C+winmx%2C+kazaa%2C+bittorrent%2C++emule&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

>Good to see so many old timers here, hi, hello to everyone.
>I wonder if anyone notice any new products outthere that would play
>divx movies AND with surround sound output. I am using my desktop to
>do the job and it works fine. However, when I switched to a laptop
>(in another room), I can only play stereo. Or, if anyone can suggest
>a laptop that would have digital audio output? TIA
>

Probably the sound card. Sony Viao is very good with great sound and
I think has surround sound (I don't have access to mine at the moment
so I can't check).


>bunanson

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