On 16 August 2013 12:56, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > And update of data gathered from website visitors. Of the ones who > come to our website from a search engine results list (and that is 48% > of our total visitors), the top ten search queries, along with a count > of recent visitors, are: > > 1. open office (326,369) > 2. openoffice (213,374) > 3. openoffice download (32,188) > 4. openoffice.org (21,786) > 5. オープンオフィス (13,476) > 6. open office mac (11,307) > 7. apache openoffice (10,576) > 8. open office download (8,964) > 9. openoffice for mac (7,395) > 10. download open office (7,006) > > Note the strong drop after the first two queries. > > (And what is #5? Japanese? What does it say?)
Google Translate says it is Japanese for "open Office" (sic) > So what does this all mean? > > A. Users are not consistent about whether the name is one word or two. > Maybe they hear about the name by ear? Or maybe this is just the > pull of standard language rules. The noun is "office" and "open" is > an adjective. It is hard to overcome years of schooling to think of > an artificial name like "OpenOffice". > > B. The core name in their mind is "OpenOffice"/"Open Office" without > the ".org" or the "Apache". This is what they are searching for when > they look for us. > > Now, one might have a theory that uses searching for "open office" end > up on our website by mistake. Maybe they were searching for something > else. For example, this term is also used to refer to an office > seating plan without walls, where everything is open in a big room. > This is also an "open office". However, if I look at only > search-directed traffic that actually leads to a download of AOO, the > query "open office" and "openoffice" are also at the very top of the > list. > > Regards, > > -Rob > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
