On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 08:49:45PM -0500, John Adams wrote:
> On May 12, 2006, at 3:45 PM, Nathan Torkington wrote:
>
> >On 13/05/2006, at 2:17 AM, Peter Scott wrote:
> >>I don't know how long it's been up, but I just noticed Google Trends.
> >> See
> >>http://www.google.com/trends?q=perl
> >
> >For a bad time, compare Perl to its peers:
> ><http://www.google.com/trends?
> >q=perl+programming%2Cpython+programming%2Cruby+programming&ctab=0&geo=a
> >ll&date=all>
>
> For a brief period in 2005, all three were just noise:
> <http://www.google.com/trends?
> q=perl+programming%2Cpython+programming%2Cruby+programming%2C+shell+prog
> ramming&ctab=2&geo=all&date=all>
I don't know what these trends means either. But it does seem like a
waste to send graphs around without any indication as to what the
lines mean.
Really, the url's would have been sufficient.
Walt


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