Google Trends

Google had updated Google Trends yesterday. I was taking it for a test drive this morning. It is one of the Google's best hidden gems, an awesome tool. According to the trends data one can make a few conclusions. In terms of popularity:

• Ubuntu strong trend eats into the Windows XP share
• In Linux space Ubuntu is a strong leader, taking its share from RedHat while Suse and Debian keeping their share
• Java is keeping strong, .NET competing more with C++ then with LAMP or Java
• Apache is keeping strong and Tomcat seems to be fighting to unseat IIS from number two.
• MySQL is getting closer to Oracle and not very far behind
• Hibernate beats by far the other persistence frameworks and the trend is keep growing!
• Emacs rocks
• Browser wars
  

Here are a few perhaps even more interesting ...

• Buddha, Confucius, Socrates, Jesus Christ, Prophet Mohammed
• George Bush, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Hugo Chavez
• Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, Pamela Anderson
• Good, Bad, Evil
  

Is it fun or what? :-) About Google Trends