Google Trends, a service that lets you compare the world’s relative interest in particular topics, suggests that blogs’ popularity have surpassed that of newspapers or magazines, at least on Google.
And this gap between blogs vs newspapers and magazines is much wider in California and India. Here’s another close-up screenshot with data for the last 30 days.
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Reader Comments
Interesting. I’m sure the former fourth estate won’t like it. ;-) Another Barkha Dutt We the People coming up.
Written by Palin Ningthoujam on 05.09.08
Blogs have allowed millions of people to express themselves, generally to the benefit of their readers on all sorts of topics. This might attract others to blog (like myself), thus forever increasing the output of blogs…
Written by pcsourcepoint on 05.09.08
The future communication medium is the blog it will be more authenticate source in the coming future.
Dear bloggers let us be more responsible for the good cause.
Written by suresh on 05.10.08
This shows the ultimate power of blogging..
Written by Abhishek Kumar on 05.10.08
I wonder how they actually count that? What is counted as a blog? Is any page with an RSS feed counted as a blog?
It’d be great if you could shed some light on that! Thanks!
Written by Dima on 05.10.08
This is just the search data .
Written by Darren Rowse on 05.11.08
People driven and controlled media now dominates.
Traditional media however has advantages such as:
- Reliability of information
- Quality of publications
- Accountability of publishers to their opinions.
- …….
Written by xHydra on 05.12.08
@darren
Are these stats not somehow indicative of the actual figures
Written by xHydra on 05.12.08