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Less popular as a Google search doesn't necessarily mean less popular, in some cases. For instance, I saw text messaging on your down trending list but that is
by thedaveoflife 15y ago
Less popular as a Google search doesn't necessarily mean less popular, in some cases. For instance, I saw text messaging on your down trending list but that is obviously as popular as ever. People probably just don't feel the need to search it because it has become so ubiquitous.
- lhnz 15y agoThat is true: this only measures current interest levels. A decrease in the current interest level of text messaging only means that people are not trying to find out about it as much. However, why did it only start trending downwards in 2008? Text messaging was ubiquitous way before 2008. http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3AdeVob01-p_N&e=text+messaging&t=weekly#default,20 http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3AdeVob01... Could it be the iPhone? Could it be the iPhone facebook app? Could it be BBM? (Or maybe I'm just reading too much into this...)