Comments on: Java ranked 8th on Google’s Zeitgeist 2007

By: Dalton Filho

Dalton Filho — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:34:47 +0000

Although I admit this is just speculation, I still find it hard to believe that a Sun shareholder would not know what Java is. Moreover, a “what is java” query on Google returns just Java language results on the first pages. If anyone is using Google to know what is Java, it’s the language they’re going to find.

By: Ignacio Coloma

Ignacio Coloma — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:53:04 +0000

Interesting. Only two of the six biggest news mentioning java are related to the language, but none of them is related to the stock ticker either:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=java

By: vgndeveloper

vgndeveloper — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:47:16 +0000

And RSS the third. Nice.

By: Alex Miller

Alex Miller — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:49:31 +0000

Seems most likely this was fueled by Sun switching it’s stock ticker to JAVA, and not by any knowledge of the actual language itself.

By: Fred Smith

Fred Smith — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 09:04:23 +0000

Not sure I agree with your logic to be honest.

There are lots of reasons why folk could be searching for Java; since Sun has changed its ticker symbol, then perhaps a lot of investment types are doing searches for it.

Having a look at some other entries in the list, do you think that lots of end users are searching the web to find out what SAP is?

Point is, lots of people use Google, not just end users.