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Comment by mkr-hn | Hacker News Reader

Relevant Google Trends chart: https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=google+android%2C+wi...

Blackberry's slide starts around October 2011. News search is a little more flat, but that probably reflects the fact that tech journalists like to compare the rise of one thing to the fall of another. Google search reflects what people are looking for in general, so it covers people looking up information on the phone and OS, not just news.

Oddly, Blackberry is still in the lead on image and shopping search. It was tied with iOS on youtube until recently.

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Why "Google Android" instead of just "Android" (or alternately you could, I suppose, go with "Apple iOS"), because the latter much more closely mirrors what has happened in the market. Unless personal assistant robots have taken off corresponding with Android, I don't think it's being polluted much.

I tried to keep it to the most general term that still associated it with a company. It seems to be smart enough to pick up on the relation between android and the other terms, but the two graphs are still wildly different. I would expect them to be similar.

I'm not sure which way to go with it. Fortunately, you're free to tinker with the inputs. This is probably a more interesting graph: https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=droid%2C%20lumia%2C%...

I think this is the most interesting (and telling) one: https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=android%2C+iphone%2C...

There is also cisco ios, which would also feature heavily on the web I would imagine.

I doubt enough people are searching for information on an enterprise networking operating system to overwhelm the volume of people searching for information on a major consumer mobile operating system.

True, but its more in line with ios the operating system.

I just typed 'ios' into Google and didn't see anything pertaining to Cisco ios in the first 10 pages. In fact even the International Organization for Succulent Plant Study rates higher than Cisco for the search term 'ios'

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