The IT Skeptic - Comments for "Google Trends is always interesting"

high traffic from Indonesia

skeptic — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:04:35 +0000

You have just solved a mystery for me. I've noticed high traffic from Indonesia.

I write a "Did you know" item in the local iTSMF newsletter. i don't think i can use this....

ITIL in Indonesia

mbuzina — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:40:00 +0000

Hi Skeptic,

I was intrigued to have a look on the stats myself, so I wend to google trends and was supprised to see Indonesia as the number 1 country where ITIL searches were originating from. This somehow truck me as odd. At least there is no Indonesian itSMF Chapter. So I checked http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~bule/bahasa/search.php for the meaning of ITIL in bahasa / indonesian.

I guess the trend you found is more indicative of the reduced interest for female sexual organs from Indonsia (http://www.google.com/trends?q=itil&ctab=0&geo=ID&date=all&sort=0) than anything that relates to ITIL as we now it.

Again, never trust a statistical analysis that you did not fake yourself....

Marc

ISO 20000 is growing and picking up speed

aroos — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:19:57 +0000

The Google graph for ISO 20k does not show much growth but the number of certificated companies is growing. When I first became interested in ISO 20k, in mid 2006 there were about 50 certificates. Sometime in 2007 the number had grown to 80. February 2008 it was 180. Today there are 265 certificates published at http://www.isoiec20000certification.com/lookuplist.asp?Type=9

The growth is exponential, that is the speed of growth is growing. I do not think it is stopping soon, the numbers per country are so small yet.

Aale