Fewer People Want to Know About Computers, Says Google

...or the number of non-technical people using Google search has grown in the same time period.

I've noticed that for a surprising number of searches, google trends shows a steep downward decline. If you browse through the categories on the left side of the link in the article (http://www.google.com/finance?q=GOOGLEINDEX_US:COMPUT) you'll see that 9/10 are declining.

It's probably best to take this article with a grain of salt. Even when you think logically about the headline this story doesn't make sense.

I suspect that the decline has something to do with Microsoft and Apple getting their games together and releasing products that actually work. Windows 7 has never given me trouble except for when I had hardware problems and OSX seems to do the same,

It's amazing how many things are in terminal decline according to Google trends

http://www.google.com/trends/?q=new+york&ctab=0&geo=...

Are you sure it's the number of computer-related searches decreasing and not the ratio of computer-related searches to all searches ? That would explain a lot. Computers are increasingly used by people who don't care or even like technology. It even affects my favorite field - computer games. Games for techies were games for problem solvers, geeks, fantasy/SF lovers. Games for mainstream people are quite often mindless fun, sports, or sims. I have noticed this trend years ago, when I tried to compare the popularity of Linux versus other operating systems.

That is quite a leap of logic based on a single correlation.

I definitely want to know about computers.