Popularity of AV's in years

[mrhero]

I've made a small search in Google trends. Graphics shows search frequency of terms:
http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/2132/avast0iu.jpg
http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/9865/kaspersky5ae.jpg
http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/461/mcafee0bo.jpg
http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/1695/nod329hb.jpg
http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/4614/norton2gd.jpg

Norton and Mcafee's popularity in decrease. Others increase, Avast is winner.

[ErikAlbert]

Avast Free or Paid?

[mrhero]

{QUOTE-> Avast Free or Paid? <-QUOTE}
Only "Avast";D . Both of them. But most people want Avast free, IMO.

[Bubba]

;D Google trends :wacko: ....kind of reminds me of a ole country saying....useless as tits on a bore hog :o

I would however like to play....so since I have no dog to hunt as far as best\better AV's I'll throw out my favorite Google trend (http://www.google.com/trends?q=avast%2Cnascar&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all) as compared to Avast. We will catch up with ya someday 8)

[Howard Kaikow]

I agree, such statistics are meaningless.

If anything Symantec/Norton is clearly mentioned more throughout the web and newsgroups, if only to complain about Symantec/Norton.

And most asnything that is allegedly free will have a disproportionate share of references, deserved or not.

[TOMxEU]

Nice statistic mrhero. It nicely proofs the trend of the new, fast & quality AVs.
Norton and Mcafee are dinosaurs these days, mostly only companies use them.

[bigc73542]

{QUOTE-> I've made a small search in Google trends. Graphics shows search frequency of terms:
http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/2132/avast0iu.jpg
http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/9865/kaspersky5ae.jpg
http://img115.imageshack.us/img115/461/mcafee0bo.jpg
http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/1695/nod329hb.jpg
http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/4614/norton2gd.jpg

Norton and Mcafee's popularity in decrease. Others increase, Avast is winner. <-QUOTE}


To me it looks like according to your charts Kaspersky hit the same high as avast but was up there far longer.

[ashishtx]

I would like to add here that the word "avast", "mcafee" and "norton" does not relate to antivirus software only. If one does a web search,one also gets webpages which are not related to antivirus software.

[pykko]

NOD is also on an ascending path. Keep going that way. :) Perhaps version 3.0 will make the difference. :P