Skype vs. Vonage Search Trends

I just got around to playing with Google Trends.  For "Brough Turner" it says "not ... enough search volume to show graphs."  Ah, vanity, vanity, but hardly surprising.

But look at this comparison.

Trend history

skype    vonage   

Even without Skype's offer of free SkypeOut service within the US & Canada, one had to wonder, as Andy Kessler does, about the future of Vonage.  Vonage looks more like a traditional phone, which helped against Skype & Skype-like services in the near term.  But more traditional (also mobile) handsets and speakerphones are coming for Skype. I have to wonder about the future of Vonage or any VoIP service that's focused on replicating traditional telephony at slightly lower cost.

Now what else can I use Google Trends for?

Comments

[Martin Geddes]

Here's a good one: http://www.google.com/trends?q=msn%2C+aol%2C+yahoo%2C+skype&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

[brough]

Martin, thanks. That is a good one. I had no idea AOL was so far behind Yahoo & MSN. I should have used "Skype, AOL, Vonage" for my graph:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=skype%2C+aol%2C+vonage&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all
as that nicely brackets Skype's growth.