Ask HN: "Ruby on Rails Vs. Django". Is Django winning?

[gosuri]

I was researching for a blog post and wanted your input, looking at the google trends (http://www.google.com/trends?q=ruby+on+rails%2C+django&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0) the momentum for Rails has drastically come down while interest for Django has been skyrocketing. Can you think of any key drivers for the change?

[nhebb]

The top 6 results shown on the right side when I did the trend search were:

  - Django Bustamante wins duel vs Deuel
  - Sukiyaki Western Django
  - Paris pays homage to gypsy jazz great Django
  - Bata, Django face tough competition in Japan Open
  - The Modern Jazz Quartet and John Lewis's Django
  - Bata, Django crash out of World Cup of Pool

There's a lot of noise in the result set. More often than not, I find it's really hard to do accurate search comparisons using Google trends. You'd probably get better results walking into an SV bar and doing a straw poll.

[newsisan]

Some improvements: http://www.google.com/trends?q=ruby+on+rails|RoR|rails+-trai...

[Anon84]

How about now? http://www.google.com/trends?q=ruby+on+rails,+django+python&...

[ianbishop]

If you compare the front page results from searching either 'django' or 'ruby on rails' that are actually related to the framework, you'll see that only 60% of django results are compared to rails' 100%.

I believe this has a lot to do with it.

[mgkimsal]

people don't need to search for rails info as much, because they already know what they need and/or go directly to the source? google trends is showing what people are searching for, which isn't necessarily what's being used the most (though likely there's a correlation).

[xyzzyz]

Your argument is completely symmetrical -- you can just substitute "django" in place of "rails" and it still makes sense. As such, it does not explain anything.