Google Correlate - Draw • Hacker News Board

thetwiceler wrote: post #11

Anyone know why "bruising" and "brown spots" are common in the summer? Not as nice as the canonical answer of "ice cream"... http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:UfmYZwmin... In case you're wondering what's popular in winter: it's lots of diseases!

Just Google these words and add the word 'summer' to get some ideas. Here's what I came up with:

Bruising: More children play outside in the summer → more bruises → more parents/children(?) Googling for it. Brown spots: Might be referring to brown spots in someone's lawn due to the weather? Or summer freckles?

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Post by rattray » Sat, Jul 06, 2013, 10:09 PM UTC

hayksaakian wrote: post #6

Bad news for "linux" http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3AWuHjnma... Wow, I can share with Google buzz. /nostalgia

interesting...

seems "Ubuntu" hasn't fared quite as bad? http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=ubuntu&t=wee...

EDIT: Seems Ubuntu may have overtaken a huge portion of Linux searches, but maybe growth started to fall off with the introduction of Windows 7? http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=ubuntu#q=ubuntu%2C%20...

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Post by rattray » Sat, Jul 06, 2013, 10:10 PM UTC

devcpp wrote: post #8

hayksaakian wrote: post #6

Bad news for "linux" http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3AWuHjnma... Wow, I can share with Google buzz. /nostalgia

I tried the same curve and got open source and free software. This is rather depressing but it's predictable.

predictable? how so?

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Post by magnet_ball » Sat, Jul 06, 2013, 10:17 PM UTC

Very neat to find local trends. Try drawing a boom (immediate spike) at some point in time to find something that trended highly back then.

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Post by simonh » Sat, Jul 06, 2013, 10:18 PM UTC

hayksaakian wrote: post #6

Bad news for "linux" http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3AWuHjnma... Wow, I can share with Google buzz. /nostalgia

It's not necessarily as bad as it seems because this is relative to overall search term popularity. As more non-techies adopted the Internet, the prevalence of all techie topics declined, some more than others. E.g. Python is more popular as ever, but it's search term interest peaked in 2006, even though it's absolute search numbers increased nicely.

I don't think google do trend graphs for absolute search numbers, so one way to approximate that is to compare the graphs for competing terms using Google Trends (1). So to get a feel for how popular Python is, compare it's trend graph to say Java or Ruby.

Another factor I suspect may be relevant for Linux is that the rise of prominent distros has probably sapped away search term activity for general searches for Linux.

(1) http://www.google.co.uk/trends/explore