From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Efforts to attract more users? Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:15:46 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1280780190 28055 80.91.229.12 (2 Aug 2010 20:16:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 20:16:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ken Hori , "Emacs Dev \[emacs-devel\]" To: Bernardo Barros Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 02 22:16:26 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Og1Qu-0006ix-42 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:16:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43837 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Og1Qt-0005XV-D5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:16:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49844 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Og1Ql-0005Vk-2Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:16:16 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Og1Qk-000798-3y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:16:15 -0400 Original-Received: from impaqm3.telefonica.net ([213.4.138.3]:43348) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Og1Qj-00078x-Sv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 16:16:14 -0400 Original-Received: from IMPmailhost5.adm.correo ([10.20.102.126]) by IMPaqm3.telefonica.net with bizsmtp id pW6x1e01q2jdgqJ3PYG1v3; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:16:01 +0200 Original-Received: from ceviche.home ([83.61.38.247]) by IMPmailhost5.adm.correo with BIZ IMP id pYFn1e0015KwfZf1lYFnzY; Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:16:01 +0200 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-TE-authinfo: authemail="monnier$movistar.es" |auth_email="monnier@movistar.es" X-TE-AcuTerraCos: auth_cuTerraCos="cosuitnetc01" Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id E2C8E66125; Mon, 2 Aug 2010 22:15:46 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Bernardo Barros's message of "Mon, 2 Aug 2010 10:32:26 -0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:128155 Archived-At: >>> I'm not sure if Emacs is attracting new users the way it used to be. >>> Certainly search volume has been going downhill for more than several years >>> (http://www.google.com/trends?q=emacs), >> What are the units in the vertical direction? > 1.0 is the mean of the period So units are a ratio w.r.t all the searches. Is there a way to know the actual number of searches to which this corresponds? This way we could tell whether the number of searches is also going down (since it might still be going up if the ratio is going down slower than the total number of searches increases). Stefan