Google trends: comparing zope and plone¶

I just noticed google trends, where you can check the popularity of searches in the last few years. You can also compare searches. After checking out plone by itself, I did a zope plus plone comparison

• I'm not amazed that plone is overtaking zope in search volume. New recruits that start out with zope will mostly start out with zope+plone, as they get much more out-of-the-box polishedness.

  I started with plain zope years ago, but I would use zope+plone+archetypes+archgenxml when starting now.

• Plone search volume is practically level for almost two years or so. I would have expected a steady rise, to be honest.

  The plone.org documentation area plus plone's livesearch is so bloody handy that I rarely use google to search for plone-related information anymore. But, assuming I'm not completely alone in that, that could only account for a leveling-out in the last half year or so.

Google trends is not perfect, especially when searching for terms that have multiple meanings. Zope and plone are pretty safe. If you compare plone to CPS, CPS has twice the search volume. But when you see a news event next to the graph that says Some CPS workers have crime records you start to think that CPS is an acronym for many things :-)