Google’s new Trends search is a lot of fun, and useful too. See how some things have taken off over the past couple of years, like Web 2.0:
and Wikipedia (the lower graph is for volume of related pieces on Google News, the upper for ordinary Search):
while others, such as WiMax, are more gradual:
Interest in others, meanwhile, seems to have peaked. 2005, for example, seems to have been RSS’ year:
whereas folk started to get less obsessed about spam in 2004:
Some terms just seem to have leapt out of nowhere, such as “botnet”:
while almost the whole history of interest in others, like phishing, are captured in the three and a half years covered by Google Trends:
