I forgot to mention, the vertical axis is the number of queries per
day. I think the spike is from when sage was featured on slashdot.

On Mar 9, 6:09 pm, Chris Chiasson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> the full traffic history of the sage cse:
>
> http://chris.chiasson.googlepages.com/2008-03-09SAGESearchEngineStats...
>
> 4074 is the total number of queries in the life of the custom search
> engine
>
> On Mar 9, 5:56 pm, Chris Chiasson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I like to compare the Sage's Google Groups activity to Mathematica's.
> > Recently there was a big jump in MMA's, but Sage was kicking butt for
> > a while there.
>
> > On Mar 9, 11:38 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 8:31 AM, mhampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > >  I agree; I'm not sure 10^6 users is a useful goal to have, although I
> > > >  am not against it.
>
> > > Again, the goal is not 10^6 users, it is "to be a viable alternative to
> > > Maple, Mathematica, Matlab, and Magma".  Any free program that
> > > genuinely attains that goal would *have* to have 10^6 users within
> > > some reasonable amount of time.   Thus I consider the 10^6 business
> > > not a goal in itself, but a clear way to measure whether we have achieved
> > > success or not.
>
> > > >  One of my hopes/goals for Sage is to make every mathematics researcher
> > > >  and educator aware of its existence, and for it to be useful to a
> > > >  large fraction of those folks.   Accomplishing that would result in
> > > >  roughly 10,000 "users", but many of those users would be deploying it
> > > >  in classes with many students each semester.  If you count the
> > > >  students as users, that would give about 10^5 users.
>
> > > Students would definitely count.
>
> > > --
> > > William Stein
> > > Associate Professor of Mathematics
> > > University of Washingtonhttp://wstein.org
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