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Re:Ask HN: Why is PHP losing so much ground? by scorpioxy on Wednesday May 26, 2010 @02:50PM (#1381205)
Seconded about Google trends being a bad way to measure anything.

Though, I think that people might be searching less for php and more for php frameworks. I guess with the success of ROR and Django, people are looking more to imitate that success by using similar frameworks.

Re:Ask HN: Why is PHP losing so much ground? by spokey on Thursday May 27, 2010 @01:04PM (#1384261)
That's a good point. While PHP is trending down, several PHP frameworks are trending up, notably Joomla: http://www.google.com/trends?q=joomla%2Cdrupal%2Cdjango%2Cdc...