Actually, to clarify and back up from the previous statement: I don't know what the level of competition is for those keywords. I thought it was low because Google didn't show a lot of ads, but that could be an artifact of automated programs that only show ads that are clicked on most frequently (or whatever).
I suppose I could look, though I don't know if there is a way to check the average selling price. Also, this gets into economic questions: Is it better for the project to have maximum investment in R&D or to have some part of investment in advertising, which can have the effect of more quickly growing the community. Perhaps it would make more sense to advertise on terms such as "AMS" or "python" or whatever else people who would make good candidate programmers search for. On Aug 8, 3:14 am, Chris Chiasson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is kinda off the wall: > > Mathematica, Maple, and Matlab don't have a lot of competition for > their keywords on Google, Yahoo, or MSN. > > By offering a **very low bid** on each of the names, you could > probably put a message about the SAGE open source project on each of > their names. In addition, you could do the same for SAGE's name. > > Together with the nice solid application based tutorials suggestion > mentioned in this thread, you might easily siphon off their new users > (and some old hands too). > > On Aug 7, 5:22 pm, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Sage-Devel, > > > The SAGE downloads during the last week are as follows: > > > Linux Binary > > 42 > > OS X Binary > > 42 > > Source > > 91 > > VMware (= Windows) > > 57 > > > Total .................................. 232 > > > The number of new downloads of SAGE per week have been roughly > > constant during the last 2-3 months. The growth of SAGE is definitely > > not what I hoped for during my talk at SAGE Days 4. Does anybody > > have any good ideas about how to increase the number of people > > downloading SAGE? My hope is that this question will spark a relaxed > > but enthusiastic and positive open-ended brainstorming thread in which > > a lot of crazy ideas appear. > > > I'm laying a lot of groundwork (e.g., writing books, articles, etc.) > > and I think other people are (esp David Joyner), but there is probably > > much more that could be done. > > > Please share your thoughts! > > > -- William --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
