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Comment by lhnz | Hacker News Reader

Interesting to see what is dying: English Chinese Dictionaries, radio stations, Altavista, lyrics, text messaging, Flash.

http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:deVob01-p...

And look what's getting more popular: Porn video sites, video sites, Facebook, Mac computers and how to work them -- particuarly how to take screenshots: this should be a tip-off to those of you working at Apple doing UX. ;)

http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:AbjtmD0iL...

Some of the stuff you would guess was becoming less or more popular but there is other stuff which is less obvious.

edit: This is super interesting: http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:SnghYCuBW...

Looks like Hacker News is gaining popularity exponentially, too. :)

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Less popular as a Google search doesn't necessarily mean less popular, in some cases. For instance, I saw text messaging on your down trending list but that is obviously as popular as ever. People probably just don't feel the need to search it because it has become so ubiquitous.

That is true: this only measures current interest levels. A decrease in the current interest level of text messaging only means that people are not trying to find out about it as much.

However, why did it only start trending downwards in 2008? Text messaging was ubiquitous way before 2008.

http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3AdeVob01...

Could it be the iPhone? Could it be the iPhone facebook app? Could it be BBM? (Or maybe I'm just reading too much into this...)

In regards to the mac screenshots, I found the key combination a little too much for something I tend to do a lot. On my Win7 laptop I have OneNote and the screen capture with <win>+S was great. Now that I have Skitch, I find it way better because of the key combo and annotation features.

On Windows "Print Screen" and "Alt + Print Screen" also take screenshots of your entire screen, and of your currently focused app, then stick it in the clipboard for pasting elsewhere.

For a steady decline, I got Christian music, flash, and Japanese dictionary stuff.

http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:NUbDKLt6K...

Similarly rising curve (although more steady) shows very different results. http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3AMSXZzlt...

json, discogs, log in, landing page, haml, wordpress seo... I wonder why is "delete gmail" there.

Its surprising there are so many tube's.

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