This is kinda off the wall:

Mathematica, Maple, and Matlab don't have a lot of competition for
their keywords on Google, Yahoo, or MSN.

By offering a **very low bid** on each of the names, you could
probably put a message about the SAGE open source project on each of
their names. In addition, you could do the same for SAGE's name.

Together with the nice solid application based tutorials suggestion
mentioned in this thread, you might easily siphon off their new users
(and some old hands too).

On Aug 7, 5:22 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Sage-Devel,
>
> The SAGE downloads during the last week are as follows:
>
> Linux Binary
> 42
> OS X Binary
> 42
> Source
> 91
> VMware (= Windows)
> 57
>
> Total .................................. 232
>
> The number of new downloads of SAGE per week have been roughly
> constant during the last 2-3 months.   The growth of SAGE is definitely
> not what I hoped for during my talk at SAGE Days 4.    Does anybody
> have any good ideas about how to increase the number of people
> downloading SAGE?   My hope is that this question will spark a relaxed
> but enthusiastic and positive open-ended brainstorming thread in which
> a lot of crazy ideas appear.
>
> I'm laying a lot of groundwork (e.g., writing books, articles, etc.)
> and I think other people are (esp David Joyner), but there is probably
> much more that could be done.
>
> Please share your thoughts!
>
>     -- William


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