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Unfortunately, even comparing them is useless. Each is used in their respective industries. When is the last time you heard of an all web start up delivered from ASP.Net? I'm sure there are exceptions, but its to a rule.

Ruby on Rails is easy to patch yourself, it has a low buy-in, and it is cross platform. .Net MVC is giving medium businesses and enterprise web portals a much needed face-lift.

What I don't see a lot of, is stories of one cannibalizing the other or competing solutions. You don't see many headlines "Startup chose ASP.Net, it made all the difference"

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StackOverflow is the only one that comes to mind.

PlentyofFish is the only other I can think of

The comparison is even more useless because of a simpler reason:

Rails people don't search "ruby on rails authentication" they search "rails authentication."

My guess is that Django and asp.net mvc people search for "django authentication."

(My assumption is that google counts a search for "django auth" as a search for Django in trends.)

This means that as Rails grows in popularity, "ruby on rails" will decline, since many many developers now know what it is.

* However, as Django and others grow in popularity they hang onto all the people searching for "django xyz"

Agreed. Interesting to see the trends though, considering ror 3 went golden a few weeks ago. (Btw, I use both aspnet mvc and ror depending on client requirements).

I suspect the "trend", such as it is, is entirely meaningless. When Ruby on Rails was new and unfamiliar, people tended to google its full, cumbersome name.

Now, people tend to just shorten it to "Rails", and indeed the top three hits for that are Ruby on Rails sites.

There's no meaning to be found in this chart.

This is more fun: http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22asp.net+mvc%22%2C+ruby+rai... asp.net+mvc&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

Mind that ruby rails probably includes searches for "ruby on rails".

Sadly, clean trends for "rails" are not really meaningful - mass transit seems to be most popular of these all.

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