With the CentOS 5.5 release date getting closer I thought I would post, with the help of Google Insights, the Web Search Interest for CentOS 5.5. The below Google Insights graph depicts the interest for CentOS 5.5 over the last 12 months.
RT @CentOS: 5.4 is baked! CentOS internal network will start syncing up today. Release ~ soon!
CentOS 5.4 will be hitting our local CentOS mirrors and YUM repositories shortly, so in anticipation for the release lets take a look at the history and trends of CentOS 5 releases.
The Google Trend graph below shows a nice steady upwards trend on the generic CentOS search phrase which is a good indication of a growing and stable Linux distribution.
The below Google Trend graph compares the different versions of CentOS 5. What’s great to see is that there is a steady overall growth in the CentOS camp and with every new release, with the previous version tailing off, the newer CentOS version takes the lead and continues the steady upwards trend.

Google is busy beta testing their new AJAX driven search engine and with the release of this new AJAX version it’s now possible, with the help of Filters, to allow Google Analytics to track the clicked position of specific keywords on a Google Keyword Search.
Firstly see if you’re using the new search engine, preform a search and then look at the url of the result page. This will assist you later went preforming keyword searches in Google in order to populate you Google Analytics data (most countries don’t support it as of yet).
Standard:
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AJAX driven:
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