• From: Michael Kay <mike@s...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:05:06 +0100

I've always been very sceptical about Google trends. The gradual decline 
in the number of queries for a term like "XML" doesn't surprise me (the 
more documents there are that mention XML, the less useful it becomes as 
a search term). What does surprise me is the geographical spread. For 
example, the Czech Republic always features near the top of the list, 
way above all other European countries, and that simply doesn't square 
with any other indicators (such as download stats for open source 
software). Anyone have an explanation? Perhaps there's some robot in the 
Czech Republic that is feeding searches through to Google?

Michael Kay
Saxonica

On 03/08/2010 13:12, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> Interest in XML is pretty steady:
>
>     http://www.google.com/trends?q=XML
>
>
> Interest in XSLT is pretty steady:
>
> http://www.google.com/trends?q=XSLT
>
>
> Interest in XML Schemas is pretty steady:
>
> http://www.google.com/trends?q=XML+Schema&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0
>
>
>
> /Roger
>
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