Google Trends

With Google trends you can compare words, and see how they are being used within google searches. You can use it to compare different things.

Check it out at http://www.google.com/trends

For example, I did a search on MySQL,PostgreSQL,Ingres to compare open source databases.

To see how google stacks up with the commercial competitors I tried. MySQL,Oracle,SQL Server,Informix,Sybase

Check it out, it’s very cool

Tagged with: General Google

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