Blog Engine Popularity: Google Searches Seem to Show WordPress Surge(?)

Just for the fun of it, I decided to play with Google Trends and see how searches for blog engine terms were trending over time. I was surprised to see how much more often WordPress was appearing compared to the past. This is likely due to WordPress.com, and how people are using Google simply to navigate to the site where they can update their blogs. That being the case, I assumed that Typepad would be way up there too. I often enter “typepad” into Google to navigate to my login page.

The phrase “vox” is used in so may other ways than 6A’s service that I attempted to normalize the chart by moving the Vox line down to where it would have originated at service launch if the term was unique.