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

   1 Title: Relative popularity of document formats (MS Office vs. ODF)
   2 Tags: english, nuug, standard, web
   3 Date: 2009-08-12 15:50
   4
   5 <p>Just for fun, I did a search right now on Google for a few file ODF
   6 and MS Office based formats (not to be mistaken for ISO or ECMA
   7 OOXML), to get an idea of their relative usage.  I searched using
   8 'filetype:odt' and equvalent terms, and got these 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>I wonder how these numbers change over time.</p>
  28
  29 <p>I am aware of Google returning different results and numbers based
  30 on where the search is done, so I guess these numbers will differ if
  31 they are conduced in another country.  Because of this, I did the same
  32 search from a machine in California, USA, a few minutes after the
  33 search done from a machine here in Norway.</p>
  34
  35
  36 <table>
  37 <tr><th>Type</th><th>ODF</th><th>MS Office</th></tr>
  38 <tr><td>Tekst</td> <td>odt:129000</td> <td>docx:308000</td></tr>
  39 <tr><td>Presentasjon</td> <td>odp:44200</td> <td>pptx:93900</td></tr>
  40 <tr><td>Regneark</td> <td>ods:26500     </td> <td>xlsx:82400</td></tr>
  41 </table>
  42
  43 <p>And with 'site:no':
  44
  45 <table>
  46 <tr><th>Type</th><th>ODF</th><th>MS Office</th></tr>
  47 <tr><td>Tekst</td> <td>odt:2480</td> <td>docx:3410</td></tr>
  48 <tr><td>Presentasjon</td> <td>odp:175</td> <td>pptx:604</td></tr>
  49 <tr><td>Regneark</td> <td>ods:186       </td> <td>xlsx:296</td></tr>
  50 </table>
  51
  52 <p>Interesting difference, not sure what to conclude from these
  53 numbers.</p>