[Discuss] Recommend Video Card for Ubuntu 7.10

[David Bronaugh]

David Frey wrote:
> On 11/22/2007, "Alan W. Irwin" <irwin at beluga.phys.uvic.ca> wrote:
>
>   
>> One off-topic comment here.  I have noticed recently that for google
>> searches it is better to leave off the +ubuntu term.  The reason is that
>> webmeisters (or the html-generating software they use) try to bump up their
>> google rankings by arbitrarily putting the ubuntu string in the html
>> comments.  (A substantial number of times recently I have gotten a wacko
>> google result which turned out to be an artifact of "ubuntu" in the html
>> comments in the html source code that you can access with the ctrl-u
>> keyboard shortcut while there was nothing to do with Ubuntu or Linux in the
>> normal page that was rendered by the browser.)
>>
>> The fact that webmeisters are trying this tactic to get higher in the google
>> rankings indicates just how popular Ubuntu has become.  So I am happy to see
>> this result.  Also, it is straightforward to work around this tactic once
>> you are aware of it. Simply, drop +ubuntu from the google search or
>> substitute +debian (which normally gives both Debian and Ubuntu results high
>> ranking with most of the hits being Ubuntu).
>>
>>     
>
>
> Maybe the number of "ubuntu" searches is indicative of the number of
> problems people are having with Ubuntu.  This is not necessarily a good
> thing
Without a population of users, you don't have a population of users 
searching for solutions to problems...

And obviously people give up after a certain amount of BS. So I'd say 
lots of search results is a good proxy for lots of users.

David