So, how often do people search for your name on Google? To find out, we made an ad with Google's "AdWords" page, then asked Google to estimate how many times a month we would have to pay to run it when users searched for each of the following names:
Larry Augustin: 0
Chris DiBona: 0
Phil Hughes: 0
Rob Malda: 0
Don Marti: 4000
Rick Moen: 0
Bruce Perens: 0
Eric Raymond: 4000
Doc Searls: 0
Richard Stallman: 0
Linus Torvalds: 1300
Richard Vernon: 0
Bob Young: 0
And of course we tried it for operating systems too:
Linux: 4,284,200
Windows: 5,653,800
Unix: 872,900
Try it yourself at https://adwords.google.com/. There is no charge to get estimates.
- Don Marti