Netbooks Continuing to Grow in Popularity
Here’s a graph showing the number of searches for the word ‘netbook’ in Google over the last 12 months:
What does this say? Well, the big peak just before point ‘A’ was Christmas last year. Then things went flat for a while. Then around July things started to pick up. And now, at the start of November, we’re already seeing as many searches for netbooks as we were at Christmas last year.
You can also see from the graph above that the ‘News reference volume’ stays flat (even goes down a little). ie, general news sites aren’t giving netbooks coverage, but people like you and me are still searching for them in huge numbers.
Here’s another graph showing searches over the last 30 days:
Again, you can see news coverage goes down slightly (the humps are midweek, the slumps are weekends). At the same time, searches for netbooks keeps going up & up & up.
In summary: Journalists aren’t paying as much attention as they should to netbooks. Even despite that, it looks like it will be a very big Christmas for netbooks this year.
