The ZDNet author didn't provide "click here to see for yourself" links. I clicked and visited trends.google.com. What query had the article author used? (We readers don't know.) Howabout: "linux distribution"When I focused my Google Trends analysis on just the United States, Red Hat jumped into second place by a typical score of 18 to 12. But that was still far, far behind Ubuntu. In the same period, Ubuntu cruises above its rivals with a score of 84.
hxxps :// trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=linux%20distribution&geo=US
Whoa, I didn't ask for geo-specific results. The site automatically appended that constraint. I really wasn't interested in hearing what has been "trending" among (only) 330M Murricans this past year. After chopping that constraint from the URL, the Top25 results did align well with my expectation. Might be an interesting exercise toward examining (real or perceived) search results bubbling: "distribucion de linux" ~~ with, and again without, the "&geo=US" constraint.