On Sep 4, 11:49 am, Erik Max Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Who knows? The graph has no labeling or calibration for the y-axis, so > it's meaningless. >
Well yes, some calibration would make it more meaningful, but it is at least labeled 'Search Volume.' What's worse the calibration changes with any search you do (try 'java programming, python programming'). In any case this is how Google describe what they are doing. |Google Trends analyzes a portion of Google web searches to compute how many |searches have been done for the terms you enter, relative to the total number |of searches done on Google over time. We then show you a graph with the |results -- our search-volume graph -- plotted on a linear scale. So I think we can at least say from the chart that searches combining the terms 'python' and 'programming' have been falling, by some unquantifiable amount (it don't _look_ like much!?), relative to the number of total searches. I think we can also say that nothing in the chart implies that the "amount of python programers is smaller every year." -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
