Today I wanted to do some research on the topics that I like to post more about. Don’t get too alarmed, this is not an academic essay about the pros and cons of technology and stuff. I just “googled” the most hot topics of tech and the results can be found below.

To summarize this a little bit, those topics are:

• Application Programming Interface, #APIs
• World Wide Web
• Smart Cities
• Internet of Things
• Computer Programming, #Python

Mainly I wanted to look out how those topics are discussed throughout the Internet and see if my personal gut is right on following after those areas.

It is pretty obvious from the graphic below that APIs, Web and Programming in general are pretty popular topics while Smart Cities and IoT only now start to pick up. Those were more or less what I was expecting to see. I was a little bit surprised with the peak of WWW the last year. This is something I did not see coming and I am not totally sure on why this happened.

I was also expecting to see more traffic on Smart Cities and IoT but maybe this means that Google needs more time to understand a new topic that people search and discuss about.

For this research I used Google Trends. This is a really nice tool to provide an overview of various topics across time and regions. You can find this specific research directly on Google Trends.

Regional Interest

Another area of interest apart from how those article perform over time, is how those perform over regions. Some of the results were surprising.

For example, I did not expect so many people from Sri Lanka or Tunisia to be interested on APIs. Mainly because I don’t know any developers over there 😛

Some other of the results were expected more or less one could say. For example it was no surprise that South Korea is so interested in IoT. Or Germany is searching a lot for World Wide Web, which is somewhat expected since they are trying to become the Silicon Valley of Europe.

What amazed me a lot, was the increased “googling” of Malta about Smart Cities. I did expect this for United Arab Emirates, Singapore and India who are considered pioneers on the area, but Malta was a surprise to me.With a little bit of searching I found out that Malta is deep on the Smart City game with their SmartCity project which btw, looks awesome!

Top Interests and Queries

Another interesting information that Trends show are the top topics regarding the overall category you are searching for and the most prominent queries.

I am only attaching the information about APIs, because the rest were not that interesting mostly cause either they are not that populated yet or they were not that relevant to a technical site.

Looking at the results, it totally makes sense that REST is there, and also JSON and Javascript. But Java???

I am not a big fan of Java, but it is definitely not a term to attach with APIs. On the other hand, Java was the first to coin the term, but since then we’ve gone a loooong way.

In any case, it is definitely a good thing that people are looking for better programming paradigms and this is the whole thing about APIs.

APIS: Better programming, Better software quality

Create your Own Trend Graphics

This article is part of my research on the topics that I find “hot”. I would like to see what you also think about those trends and play with your own graphics.

Feel free to contact me with your ideas and I would love to share them in a next post!! As I have quoted many times in the past, this site is a collaborative effort and my posts are only a trigger for further discussion.