Surprised there is no 开放式办公 (Open Office in Chinese) given the population.
Though on a recent trip to China I was surprised at how low the awareness was of AOO. On 16 August 2013 13:21, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 16 August 2013 12:56, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> 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: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > -- Ian Ofqual Accredited IT Qualifications <https://theingots.org/community/faq#7.0> Headline points in the 2014 and 2015 school league tables www.theINGOTs.org +44 (0)1827 305940 The Learning Machine Limited, Reg Office, 36 Ashby Road, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B79 8AQ. Reg No: 05560797, Registered in England and Wales.
