Every second blog I came across recently has an entry about google trends, , so I am adding my small findings too!

After playing with it for a few hours, , I have to say that writing a relevant query is not always as easy as it seems. , People are posting Java vs Python vs Ruby comparisons, , but they are not always aware that the graph contains (among other things) the comparison of an island, , a comedy troupe (Monty Python) and a character set (Ruby Characters), , for example. , According to wikipedia, , all three terms have more than ten possible meanings, , and although a tech nerd may know only one for each of them, , not all pages out there are (fortunately) written by tech guys.

Let’s start with some Rails related stuff:

Well, , I wonder who else recently (not even necessarily in the computer industry) got so famous in a matter of days… It is interesting that there is no data available for “David Heinemeier Hansson” or even “David Hansson”, , just for DHH.

The next graph could answer the question whether it is a good idea for a web hosting company today to support Ruby on Rails:

For the idea of the following googleTrendFight thanks for Laszlo on Rails blog.

It’s really thrilling to see that a (once) small open source community can compete with enterprise stuff of such magnitude as JBoss/EJB (ok, , this is kind of apples-to-oranges, , but nevertheless interesting). , If you wonder why did JBoss’ search volume go dramatically up - it’s because RedHat bought the company.

Non-Rails related: slashdot.com vs digg.com vs reddit.com:

No comment…

The last one about wikipedia, , kind of funny:

Why should be this funy? Because the only point in the history (so far) when search volume for wikipedia was declining was because of:

Probably (hopefully?!?!) there is no direct link between these facts, , but it is an interesting random coincidence then…

I wonder whether google will improve the quality of this search and/or add possibility to specify advanced queries to prevent mixing in of irrelevant results - at the moment, , if I did try to narrow the search, , in lot of cases i got back ‘data not available’… , Interesting toy, , though.

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