Comments on: Searches for the word P2P on Google Insights https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/searches-for-the-word-p2p-on-google-insights/2008/08/12 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:50:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Michel Bauwens https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/searches-for-the-word-p2p-on-google-insights/2008/08/12/comment-page-1#comment-292178 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:50:14 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=1741#comment-292178 My answer to this would be fairly simple: for the vast majority of people, the concept of p2p stands for filesharing, and they are looking for sources of information or entertainment through filesharing.

As the use of p2p filesharing for media usage is even greater in China, where lots of normally inaccessible international TV programs are seen through the web, I’m not surprised by the finding.

If you would want to find what kind of people are interested in p2p as peer production, then an alternative would be to look at Google Analytics, and to study the provenance of our own visitors (and of blogs like ours). I did it once, and discovered, surprise surprise, that half of our feed readers came from California!!

Michel

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