Google Trends and OFBiz

[David E Jones]

Interesting results looking at the Google Trends for the search term  
"ofbiz":

http://www.google.com/trends?q=ofbiz&ctab=0&sa=N
http://www.google.com/trends?q=ofbiz&ctab=1&sa=N

Looks like "ofbiz" is most popular in the far east and Europe. The  
USA didn't even make the top 10 of the regions, and only New York  
City made the top 10 cities at #6, and Shanghai beat it by about 5  
times or something.

Not sure if we can do anything to help with Chinese and Indian  
users... is it mostly a language barrier keeping people in these  
places from getting involved, or perhaps more of a culture barrier?

-David

[Walter Vaughan]

David E. Jones wrote:

> Interesting results looking at the Google Trends for the search term  
> "ofbiz":
<snip>
> Not sure if we can do anything to help with Chinese and Indian  users...
> is it mostly a language barrier keeping people in these  places from
> getting involved, or perhaps more of a culture barrier?

See, I need to start looking for the goodness in men's hearts, instead of always
looking at the glass as half empty.

All *I* see are bots or people acting like bots seaching for pages that have
ofbiz in them in order to exploit them somehow now or in the future. Documenting
sites that may be prone to a DOS, theft of information, or just "bad things".

That, or there are tens of thousands of CD's being sold for in overseas markets
for pennies with ofBiz on them, and the result is the "what did I buy" google
searches.

Might even explain the several thousand downloads a week that opentaps gets. If
all these downloads and serches are "real", heck we should be able to toss
together an ofBiz conference that would deem coverage from MSNBC, have a monthly
glossy magazine, and the coup de grâce ... an O'Reilly book ... now on it's 3rd
edition.

--
Walter

[flj]

<really big grin/>

--
Florin Jurcovici
------------------
Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?


On Tue, 01 May 2007 16:50:05 +0300, Walter Vaughan  
<[hidden email]> wrote:

> David E. Jones wrote:
>
>> Interesting results looking at the Google Trends for the search term  
>> "ofbiz":
> <snip>
>> Not sure if we can do anything to help with Chinese and Indian  
>> users... is it mostly a language barrier keeping people in these  
>> places from getting involved, or perhaps more of a culture barrier?
>
> See, I need to start looking for the goodness in men's hearts, instead  
> of always looking at the glass as half empty.
>
> All *I* see are bots or people acting like bots seaching for pages that  
> have ofbiz in them in order to exploit them somehow now or in the  
> future. Documenting sites that may be prone to a DOS, theft of  
> information, or just "bad things".
>
> That, or there are tens of thousands of CD's being sold for in overseas  
> markets for pennies with ofBiz on them, and the result is the "what did  
> I buy" google searches.
>
> Might even explain the several thousand downloads a week that opentaps  
> gets. If all these downloads and serches are "real", heck we should be  
> able to toss together an ofBiz conference that would deem coverage from  
> MSNBC, have a monthly glossy magazine, and the coup de grâce ... an  
> O'Reilly book ... now on it's 3rd edition.
>
> --
> Walter

[Jacques Le Roux]

Joli "coup de grâce", indeed !

Jacques

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>
> <really big grin/>
>
> --
> Florin Jurcovici
> ------------------
> Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?
>
>
> On Tue, 01 May 2007 16:50:05 +0300, Walter Vaughan
> <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> > David E. Jones wrote:
> >
> >> Interesting results looking at the Google Trends for the search

term
> >> "ofbiz":
> > <snip>
> >> Not sure if we can do anything to help with Chinese and Indian
> >> users... is it mostly a language barrier keeping people in these
> >> places from getting involved, or perhaps more of a culture barrier?
> >
> > See, I need to start looking for the goodness in men's hearts,
instead
> > of always looking at the glass as half empty.
> >
> > All *I* see are bots or people acting like bots seaching for pages
that
> > have ofbiz in them in order to exploit them somehow now or in the
> > future. Documenting sites that may be prone to a DOS, theft of
> > information, or just "bad things".
> >
> > That, or there are tens of thousands of CD's being sold for in
overseas
> > markets for pennies with ofBiz on them, and the result is the "what
did
> > I buy" google searches.
> >
> > Might even explain the several thousand downloads a week that
opentaps
> > gets. If all these downloads and serches are "real", heck we should
be
> > able to toss together an ofBiz conference that would deem coverage
from
> > MSNBC, have a monthly glossy magazine, and the coup de grâce ... an
> > O'Reilly book ... now on it's 3rd edition.
> >
> > --
> > Walter
>
>
>

[Shi Jinghai]

> Not sure if we can do anything to help with Chinese and Indian  
> users... is it mostly a language barrier keeping people in these  
> places from getting involved, or perhaps more of a culture barrier?
Language is the main barrier for Chinese.

Shi Jinghai

[Vikrant.Rathore]

Hi David,

I have been evangelizing ofbiz across Shanghai and we were looking for partners to help us here. I did presentation even to one of the biggest software houses here. So may be it might be the effect of it that people started looking at it in Shanghai, Hong Kong. The traffic in Beijing I can attribute to Shi Jinghai who has been actively working on it.

Indeed if I am not wrong at least 20 companies in Shanghai must be looking into the ofbiz after I presented them a demo and a test implementation and our requirements.

Indeed in my company itself around 22 people are looking into ofbiz on a regular basis.

I am very happy Shanghai could come high on the google trends for ofbiz. :)

Indeed gave presentation not just to software houses but to some mfg. as well and they seem to like the integrated approach I mentioned them can be achieved with ofbiz.

Regards,
Vikrant


-----Original Message-----
From: David E. Jones [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 5:30 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Google Trends and OFBiz


Interesting results looking at the Google Trends for the search term  
"ofbiz":

http://www.google.com/trends?q=ofbiz&ctab=0&sa=N
http://www.google.com/trends?q=ofbiz&ctab=1&sa=N

Looks like "ofbiz" is most popular in the far east and Europe. The  
USA didn't even make the top 10 of the regions, and only New York  
City made the top 10 cities at #6, and Shanghai beat it by about 5  
times or something.

Not sure if we can do anything to help with Chinese and Indian  
users... is it mostly a language barrier keeping people in these  
places from getting involved, or perhaps more of a culture barrier?

-David


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[rajsaini]

-----Original Message-----

> From: David E. Jones [mailto:[hidden email]]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 5:30 PM
> To: [hidden email]
> Subject: Google Trends and OFBiz
>
>
> Interesting results looking at the Google Trends for the search term  
> "ofbiz":
>
> http://www.google.com/trends?q=ofbiz&ctab=0&sa=N
> http://www.google.com/trends?q=ofbiz&ctab=1&sa=N
>
> Looks like "ofbiz" is most popular in the far east and Europe. The  
> USA didn't even make the top 10 of the regions, and only New York  
> City made the top 10 cities at #6, and Shanghai beat it by about 5  
> times or something.
>  

Do I see it other way around? I see India on top followed by Hong Kong,
China, France, Italy for top 5 positions.

Thanks,

Raj

[Shi Jinghai]

Thanks Vikrant,

You are a magic man.

BTW, I'm not that powerful to represent the Beijing's google search to
OFBiz :).

In China, there are many software venders and service companies are
looking for web based erp solutions to replace current client-server
systems.

I do think Apache OFBiz will have a good future in China. For us, we're
developping an OFBiz based system for the Information Security Research
Center of China, the root CA of China. If this project success, we have
a great chance to copy it to more than 200 simillar research centers
(all have inevitable government powers in different areas) in China.

I hope my company can make some contribute to the vision David mentioned
to support 20-30% world economy :).

Kind Regards,

Shi Jinghai/Beijing Langhua Ltd.