[Discuss] Recommend Video Card for Ubuntu 7.10

[Corey Burger]

On Nov 22, 2007 1:05 PM, David Frey <dpfrey at shaw.ca> 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.

The simple reality is that you put more bums in chairs, you get more
problems. Ubuntu has been more successful in getting those bums, hence
more people creating problems and looking for fixes to them.

Corey