Well, I just discovered a feature on Google Trends that sheds a different light on my previous post on web development techniques. Displaying several trends in one image reveals the relative size of search volumes of specific terms.
As can be seen when comparing ‘zope’, ‘plone’, ‘ruby rails’ and ‘turbogears’:
Somewhat related, ‘mambo’ and ‘joomla’:
Try for yourself.
June 28, 2006 at 11:46 |
I would make the search-terms somewhat discriminative…
mambo vs joomla:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=mambo+cms%2Cjoomla+cms
That gives you a somewhat different picture (although mambo and joomla are still coming towards each other). Besides this, I don’t think that a search-trend would qualify as a valid measurement for the success or, even better, the quality of a product. The dumb masses etc.
July 1, 2006 at 14:07 |
Hello,
I just stopped by (via Google
).
I have to disagree partly with the previous comment by Riesh:
first of all succes and quality hang closely together to speak generally.
second of all hum,hum any Dutch people here?
http://www.google.com/trends?q=wuppie
July 3, 2006 at 10:03 |
You’ve just stated my claim
. The whole concept of a Wuppy is one of the least creative maginations of man-kind, it’s crappy (made in China) and it’s owned by vader abraham.
Need I say more ?
July 5, 2006 at 07:47 |
that’s just your opinion. If wuppies are that crappy then why are they such a big hit. Such a big hit could not come from a non-creative idea. The production in China keeps the costs low which is another key to its succes.
July 5, 2006 at 13:55 |
Actually, it is hard to discriminate between multiple semantically different uses for the same word.
Say you want to compare ruby and python search trends. Should we use:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=ruby,python
or
http://www.google.com/trends?q=ruby+programming,python+programming
or
http://www.google.com/trends?q=ruby+language,python+language
July 6, 2006 at 14:17 |
yes!