Golang overtakes Clojure in Goggle Trends

confused, but according to the chart it was only for a bit and then dipped back down.

Though I am definitely interested in golang and would love to find a good reason to write some production code for work in it.

That's... a very specific comparison. Why is Clojure singled out here? They don't really inhabit the same problem space.

Just for perspective, here is the same graph adding Python and Java: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#cat=0-5-31&q=julia%2C%2...

At the level of 'google trends' (or really, any language ball-parking) we should be talking about orders of magnitude instead of small differences.

In other news, YahooLang trends upward on YahooTrends.

Due to the fuzzy way language is used, one cannot simply compare 'go', 'clojure', or 'scala' search quantities directly. Not everybody refers to 'Go' as 'golang', 'scala' is a common noun in some languages, etc.

At best, you can reframe your query to remove unrelated topics completely, with searches like "golang" and "scala language", which will be proportional to the search popularity of the topics but only a fraction of actual searches (a different fraction for each searchterm, but stable over time), and compare their relative rates of growth rather than their absolute levels.