OS Discussion: What have people talked about by TLD

I've talked about Google Trends before, and controversy keeps being brought up about Ubuntu v. Windows Vista, as well as other combinations. Today I wanted to take another approach. Not what people are looking for so much, but what has been said. I was inspired by an article on Slashdot about the Department of Defense setting up their own site like Sourceforge, which happens to reside at a .mil top level domain(TLD). So I thought, if .mil sites are heavily regulated and organized, what is the trend of references to various Operating Systems? Further, how closely does this relate to other 'special use' TLDs?

Because I really hate when people don't put the raw data or method for data collection with a study, here is the code I used. Sure, I could have done this by hand, but Linux, for me, is all about making things easier.

note: The reason for the sleep 1s; is because of this

echo "Search results for OS's by TLD\n\n"; for j in '+site%3A.edu' '+site%3A.gov' '+site%3A.mil' '+site%3A.org' '+site%3A.net' '+site%3A.com'; do echo -e "\nMatching terms for $j"; for i in 'Microsoft' 'Windows' '"Microsoft Windows"' 'IBM' 'Apple' 'Unix' 'Linux' '"Red Hat"' 'Solaris' 'AIX' 'Novell' '"Sun Microsystems"' 'OSX' 'Fedora' 'Suse' 'FreeBSD' 'NetBSD' 'OpenBSD' 'Ubuntu' '"Windows 3"' '"Windows 95"' '"Windows 98"' '"Windows NT"' '"Windows 2000"' '"Windows XP"' '"Windows Vista"' '"Windows 7"' '"Windows Server"'; do sleep 1s; echo -en "$i\t\t"; lynx "http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=$i$j&btnG=Search" -useragent="Mozilla/5.0 Lynx" -dump | grep Results | sed -e 's/^.* of about \([0-9,]*\)\ .*$/\1/' | head -n 1; done; done | tee TLDresults.txt

Should I have formatted it and saved it as a script? Probably, but that wasn't how it was done. :) I love the terminal. Ooh, and run at your own risk. I got multiple computers banned testing this script.

Anyway, here are the results I got (reformatted):

Company / OS	.edu	.gov	.mil	.org*	.net*	.com*
Microsoft	7420000	1320000	64700	64000	30100	548000
Windows	11000000	1620000	65900	171000	48500	893000
Microsoft Windows	596000	84600	5190	4650	3170	59100
IBM	6460000	1420000	21500	40400	5950	185000
Apple	1920000	606000	11500	40600	15200	318000
Unix	7350000	775000	10300	25100	12000	68400
Linux	2130000	693000	5450	104000	51600	254000
Red Hat	796000	201000	2620	3960	1660	17000
Solaris	612000	68700	2560	13400	2320	21600
AIX	328000	68100	2480	4790	1680	15100
Novell	144000	20600	1190	2170	1050	12200
Sun Microsystems	225000	29000	2240	4180	731	16600
OSX	885000	142000	7090	19300	7440	85500
Fedora	788000	21900	680	6810	3620	13800
Suse	283000	19200	359	4630	1880	9230
FreeBSD	356000	9770	177	10400	2420	9910
NetBSD	46500	2520	136	3270	321	1890
OpenBSD	28300	2450	102	2080	437	2430
Ubuntu	486000	29100	49	14200	9340	44100
Windows 3	57500	3410	271	108	165	2290
Windows 98	83800	16000	1260	2790	1440	46400
Windows 2000	231000	45700	3690	3660	1880	39100
Windows XP	1450000	51400	3450	12600	7590	144000
Windows NT	390000	39700	4010	4810	1700	22900
Windows Vista	296000	8880	905	5830	5440	117000
Windows 7	15500	1150	134	1440	3550	61700
Windows Server	54800	8130	1040	1890	1970	29900

(* thousands)

note: eek, formatting didn't come out as expected. Will fix soon.
update: ok, so my html sucks, but the table is easier to look at than before.

Unfortunately have run out of time make any remarks considering the trend, but I see some interesting relationships. Will comment further tomorrow.