<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Yep. Google explains that it's based on the number of searches vs. total number of Google searches. As long as Google traffic goes up overall, *any* term with steady query volume will go down over time.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://support.google.com/trends/answer/87285?hl=en">http://support.google.com/trends/answer/87285?hl=en</a><br><br>I don't think anyone would argue that queries of the term "perl" are becoming more frequent faster than all Google traffic is growing.</div><div><br></div><div><div>-- Mike</div><div>______________________________</div><div>Michael Friedman</div><div><a href="mailto:frimicc@gmail.com">frimicc@gmail.com</a></div></div><div><br>On Mar 13, 2013, at 3:05 PM, Peter Thoeny <<a href="mailto:peter@thoeny.org">peter@thoeny.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>No base for alarm, it's all relative - compare to other languages such as</span><br><span><a href="http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=perl%2C%20php%2C%20javascript&cmpt=q">http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=perl%2C%20php%2C%20javascript&cmpt=q</a></span><br><span></span><br><span>Cheers,</span><br><span>Peter</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>On Mar 13, 2013, at 1:59 PM, mehryar wrote:</span><br><span></span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>Sadly:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=perl">http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=perl</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>but maybe Perl is really picking up in India :-)</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>cheers,</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>-Mehryar</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>_______________________________________________</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>SanFrancisco-pm mailing list</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="mailto:SanFrancisco-pm@pm.org">SanFrancisco-pm@pm.org</a></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span><a href="http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/sanfrancisco-pm">http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/sanfrancisco-pm</a></span><br></blockquote><span></span><br><span>-- </span><br><span>  * Peter Thoeny     - Peter[at]<a href="http://Thoeny.org">Thoeny.org</a></span><br><span>  * <a href="http://TWiki.org">http://TWiki.org</a> - is your team already TWiki enabled?</span><br><span>  * Knowledge cannot be managed, it can be discovered and shared</span><br><span>  * This e-mail is:   (_) private    (x) ask first    (_) public</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>SanFrancisco-pm mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:SanFrancisco-pm@pm.org">SanFrancisco-pm@pm.org</a></span><br><span><a href="http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/sanfrancisco-pm">http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/sanfrancisco-pm</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>