Yes 26 seems to be Japanese. Difficult to know if Chinese are just more ready to use English - my limited experience seemed to suggest otherwise since few spoke English at the recent international university education conference I was speaking at. Had an interpreter, line by line. No-one seemed to know much about FOSS. Perhaps we just have a very big potential but untapped market in China ;-).
On 16 August 2013 14:45, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Ian Lynch <ianrly...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Surprised there is no 开放式办公 (Open Office in Chinese) given the > population. > > > > Looking further down the list, after the top 10, I see the following > non-English searches: > > > 11. openoffice ダウンロード > > 14. open office gratuit > > 15. опен офис > > 20. 오픈오피스 > > 24. telecharger open office > > 26. オープンオフィス無料ダウンロード > > 27. openoffice 日本語 > > 33. open office pobierz > > I can look at the results per search engine, and the most common > queries for Baidu users are still openoffice, open office and > openoffice.org. So maybe these versions are more familiar than with > Chinese characters? Or, if that is the preferred term, our website > doesn't use it enough so users don't end up finding our website. I > only get stats for users who actually visit the website. If they > search for something and don't find us, then we don't have a record of > that. > > -Rob > > > > 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. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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.
