blog/data/2009-08-13-google-filtype.txt

   1 Title: Relative popularity of document formats (MS Office vs. ODF)
   2 Tags: english, nuug, standard
   3 Date: 2009-08-12 15:50
   4
   5 <p>Just for fun, I did a search on Google for a few file ODF and MS
   6 Office based formats, to get an idea of their relative usage.  I
   7 searched using 'filetype:odt' and equvalent terms, and got these
   8 results:</P>
   9
  10 <table>
  11 <tr><th>Type</th><th>ODF</th><th>MS Office</th></tr>
  12 <tr><td>Tekst</td> <td>odt:282000</td> <td>docx:308000</td></tr>
  13 <tr><td>Presentasjon</td> <td>odp:75600</td> <td>pptx:183000</td></tr>
  14 <tr><td>Regneark</td> <td>ods:26500     </td> <td>xlsx:145000</td></tr>
  15 </table>
  16
  17 <p>Next, I added a 'site:no' limit to get the numbers for Norway, and
  18 got these numbers:</p>
  19
  20 <table>
  21 <tr><th>Type</th><th>ODF</th><th>MS Office</th></tr>
  22 <tr><td>Tekst</td> <td>odt:2480 </td> <td>docx:4460</td></tr>
  23 <tr><td>Presentasjon</td> <td>odp:299   </td> <td>pptx:741</td></tr>
  24 <tr><td>Regneark</td> <td>ods:187       </td> <td>xlsx:372</td></tr>
  25 </table>
  26
  27 <p>Wonder how these numbers change over time.  I am aware of Google
  28 returning different results and numbers based on where the search is
  29 done, so I guess these numbers will differ if they are conduced in
  30 another country.  Because of this, I did the same search from a
  31 machine in California, USA.</p>
  32
  33
  34 <table>
  35 <tr><th>Type</th><th>ODF</th><th>MS Office</th></tr>
  36 <tr><td>Tekst</td> <td>odt:129000</td> <td>docx:308000</td></tr>
  37 <tr><td>Presentasjon</td> <td>odp:44200</td> <td>pptx:93900</td></tr>
  38 <tr><td>Regneark</td> <td>ods:26500     </td> <td>xlsx:82400</td></tr>
  39 </table>
  40
  41 <p>And with 'site:no':
  42
  43 <table>
  44 <tr><th>Type</th><th>ODF</th><th>MS Office</th></tr>
  45 <tr><td>Tekst</td> <td>odt:2480</td> <td>docx:3410</td></tr>
  46 <tr><td>Presentasjon</td> <td>odp:175</td> <td>pptx:604</td></tr>
  47 <tr><td>Regneark</td> <td>ods:186       </td> <td>xlsx:296</td></tr>
  48 </table>
  49
  50 <p>Interesting difference, not sure what to conclude from these
  51 numbers.</p>