Are We Losing Interest in Computers?

[JMH]

Google usually does not reveal too much detail of its search traffic, but when it does, there may be some interesting implications of user behavior.

As part of its financial website, Google allows users to compare search traffic of aggregated industries against the developing price of stock. The search traffic is normalized to the value of 1.0 and the search volume that occurred on January 1, 2004. Don't expect any dramatic revelations or search numbers or even a search volume pertaining to a single company. However, the selection of 27 industries and related search terms may cause some speculation of a changing way how we acquire information.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/google-research-finance-computer-search,16989.html#xtor=RSS-181

 

[Laxer]

Of course is this due to lack of interest or lack of funding?

I find the recession more at blame than users losing interest...

 

[niemiro]

Of course is this due to lack of interest or lack of funding?

I find the recession more at blame than users losing interest...

Although the data starts at 2004, and the recession wasn't really for another couple of years. But I do agree that the recession probably did have an impact, especially in the later years of that data.

 

[AceInfinity]

I'm not losing interest in computers, I can tell you that. In fact my interest is increasingly increasing lol... I'm learning a ton these days with all this new stuff i'm being exposed to in my career. With the direction we've been heading as well, it's only been getting better, and my motivation to get on my computer is just becoming more and more. :)