Crochet vs Knitting search terms, trends, past January 2008 – Décembre 2012 (crochet is blue)
I recently spent some time playing with the Google Trends tool. This online tool allows you to enter search terms and look at the trends related to those terms over time. You can search a single term or compare various terms. I was curious to see how “crochet” stacks up against “tricoter” in terms of online searches.
Here’s a comparison of the search terms in 2008:
And here’s a comparison of the search tems in 2012
I discovered that crochet and knitting both increased in popularity as search terms over the past five years. Cependant, crochet searches grew considerably more. Five years ago, it was trending slightly less than knitting but now there are significantly more searches for crochet than knitting. Interesting!
I also used the search tool to look at the most popular search terms related to crochet in both 2008 et 2012. There were a lot of similarities; people search for crochet patterns and how to crochet. But there were a few key differences. Here were the top search terms in 2008:
Note that “tricoter” appeared as a crochet search term in 2008.
En 2012, the top crochet-related search terms were:
As you may notice, something different now is that there are more people searching Spanish crochet terms, quelque chose qui ne figure pas dans la 2008 list.
Finally, just for fun I thought I’d see how crochet searches compared to searches for other crafts in the past few years. I was intrigued to see that crochet searches recently (in the past two years) surpassed searches for sewing:
Interestingly, throughout this time more people have searched “crochet” than “artisanat” ou “needlework” but fewer people searched for “crochet” than “DIY”.
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