cre8d design

If I remember correctly, wasn’t Drupal’s increase due to them asking for funding because their server melted down and Slashdot picked up the story?

I remember using Drupal before the peak, but only really hearing about it in the mainstream when they asked for funding.

Rachel

What’s interesting is if you include “blogger” in there. Although “blogger” is a broader term than just meaning the Blogger blogging service, WordPress still manages to catch up in 2006.

In fact, their graphs this year have been almost synchronized, which would/could suggest WordPress has become synonymous with blogging.

“blogspot” and “wordpress” track together very closely from about 2004 to the present.

[...] Find out the result here. If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to the Free ProBlogger Newsletter [...]

Yeah,Wordpress is the most popular platform!

Typepad has grown steadily during that time. It’s only natural that WordPress would grow in popularity (if that what the search results indicate) since the install process is far easier than MT.

Rachel,
thanks for the nice idea to comapre bloggin platforms by using google’s trends. I am now in the process of moving my blog http://ohad-news.blogspot.com from blogger to a hosting provider and was not sure which publishing platform to choose. I think I might choose wordpress and go with the masses

From an individual blogger’s point of view, WP has to be the best and it’s certainly getting lot’s of attention as reflected in that graph.

I am starting to experiment with Drupal though and so far it is pretty good.

Hi, thanks for showing what one can do with this new feature. I did another selection:

I took wordpress, drupal, mambo, joomla, serendipity.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=wordpress%2Cdrupal%2Cmambo%2Cjoomla%2Cserendipity&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

As one can see everything is relative… Mambo lost a lot and wordpress and joomla gained.

My favorite is http://www.geeklog.net and that is even more relative.

Towards the end of last year, I converted all of my blogs from MovableType to WordPress. I have never looked back.

I’ve been using Drupal for a number of sites for almost two years…. including a trio of group blogs. If you’re *just* looking for a blog, it’s a bit of overkill, but since most people who stick with blogging for a while tend to go past that and get into other things, it’s a great platform for doing all kinds of things.

My most used modules are spam, scheduler, service_links (adds digg, reddit, etc), and the various aggregators.

Drupal is (to me) a major piece of complex and pain in the ass software. WordPress just makes more sense. But, getting WordPress out of the “blog” idea and into a CMS is nearly impossible, and that’s where Drupal is useful.

I certainly agree that Drupal is overkill for a normal blog, but as you say if you want to start expanding things, it’s pretty good.

[...] Google Trends — cre8d design blog “Fascinating to note that in May 2004, MovableType 3.0 was released, along with licensing for the first time which is almost precisely when WordPress became a more popular search phrase than MovableType.” [...]

[...] Dieser Frage ging Rachel Cunliffe in ihrem Blog mit Hilfe des Google Trends Dienstes auf den Grund. Hierbei wurden die Anzahlen von verschienden Suchphrasen die über die Suchmaschine Google abgesetzt wurden grafisch über den Zeitverlauf von mehreren Jahren dargestellt. Verglichen wurden die 5 populärsten Blogsysteme Drupal, WordPress, MovableType, Expression Engine und Textpattern. [...]

[...] This post is a little late as an introduction to Google Trends as many people had done some interesting trending for blog design, playstation 3 vs xbox360, and many more insights. [...]