Google Blogscoped reported today that, according to Google Trends:

«Apparently, people search for the word “Google” on Google more than they do for “music”, “movies”, “flowers”, even “sex”. And it’s happened in the last couple months.»

Hmmm…in the last couple of months.

The original link posted showed the measure of the five terms, but it’s a bit easier to just look at Google vs. Sex. If you look at it, you see that these trends are measured over a period of 4 years. I’m a firm believer that the «general» online community is becoming evermore savvy. Kids are growing up, parents are getting more involved, and grandma is learning to email pictures of Fluffy to Rose down the street using Flickr.

I suspect that we will continue to see trends like this.

In a very bad blogging form, I will merge this post with something I saw today, as it almost relates to my opinion.

I saw the USA Today article about Internet Porn in the Workplace. Reading the story, I found that it was the same «Internet is bad» drivel we see in most media aspects. But the first thing I thought when I say the title of the article was «Gee, you know what USA Today should do? They should build a time machine, go back 10 years, and rewrite the story so that it would be just a bit more newsworthy.»

Times are changing. Internet porn stories just aren’t big anymore. It’s all old news. The mysticism of the Internet is gone, and has been replaced with a much wider knowledge and understanding, leaving such vague search terms as «sex» and «music» to be used by the brand-new-to-the-scene, and few more.

The search for Google shows a more competent searching community, likely looking for Google news or updated stock information. Still extremely lacking in detail for a search term, but one of the many steps in the right direction for mass adeptness.