http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22asp.net+mvc%22%2C+%22ruby+on+rails%22%2C+%22rails%22&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22asp.net+

http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22asp.net+mvc%22%2C+%22ruby+on+rails%22%2C+%22rails%22&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22asp.net+mvc%22%2C+%22ruby+... You can see that search volume growth for "rails" had been flat for the year before Ruby on Rails came out. Since then, "rails" trended the same as "ruby on rails" at every point in the last six years. Right now, the search volume for "rails" is still trending 10 points higher on the graph than it did before RoR came out; to put that into perspective, searches for the full name "Ruby on Rails" have been less than 10 points since the start of 2008. All this indicates is that people have learned they can get good results by typing "rails" instead of the full name. I want to add that it's possible that nearly all correlation between "rails" and "ruby on rails" is due to the possibility that google double-counts "ruby on rails" searches as "rails" since that word appears in the full name. However, the 10 point increase in "rails" still trends 5 points higher than the 5 point increase in "ruby on rails" during the same period of first release in 2005 to now in 2010, which is double. But anyway, the point isn't that my stats are any better; the point is to demonstrate that it's hard to make an inference based on two keywords, and even harder to predict what will happen based on this information, even if it was accurate. No news here except that there are many MVC web frameworks these days.