I'm willing to donate £30.00 ($48) of my own money to target Mathematica, so when people search for it, they get ads for Sage on Google. That might not be enough to make any impact, but it's worth a try.
1) First, does anyone object to me doing this, or have any opinions why its a bad idea? 2) Secondly, would anyone object if William donated some money from Sage donations or other sources of income? I'm not suggesting William should do that, but he did wonder on another thread (Support contracts for commercial customers) if people might object to money being spent on advertising. Next question, how does one target languages and regions? According to Google trends, taking only the last 12 months http://www.google.co.uk/trends?q=mathematica&ctab=0&geo=all&date=ytd&sort=0 for search terms, 1) The most common search region is Greece 2) The most common search city is Cambridge, MA, USA. 3) The most common search language is Greek I must admit, the first and third surprise me a bit. One thing that I did consider is that in some countries, where software piracy is very common, the idea of saving money by using Sage rather than Mathematica might not be much incentive. I've no idea of the accuracy of this data, but http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_sof_pir_rat-crime-software-piracy-rate ranks Armenia as the #1 country for piracy at 93%, Greece at #60 with 58%, the UK (where I live) at #27 with 26% and the USA at #107 with 20%. I can well believe 26% in the UK, as that figure probably includes games, but I think it will be a lot lower for professional software like Mathematica. One can either pay for a click or pay by the number of ads seen. Any thoughts on the best way to target this? Take a look at http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/adwords/jumpstart/09Q3-new.html to see the options. Creating the account is free, though there's a $5 one-off fee for actually taking out the ads. You can read a lot more, and experiment with keywords once you have an account. I suspect it needs more than £30 ($48) to make any serious impact, but it would be interesting to see what happens. Dave -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
