IT Industry waning in America?? Notice this Google search trend

[Roland99]

That's a trend of keyword searches on Google for common IT development terms (ASP, JS, VB, etc.)

Notice how it's going down and is the lowest it's been in years and also notice how NONE of the Top 10 cities for the searches are in the U.S.

There must be a helluva lot more outsourcing going on that I've ever thought before.

[valerief]

1. Pretty soon the only jobs in US will be for Wal-Mart and Bushco. nt

[OhioChick]

2. There is a helluva lot of outsourcing going on......

but it's not due to "unskilled" US Engineers.

Study: There Is No Shortage of U.S. Engineers

April 4, 2007

A commonly heard defense in the arguments that surround U.S. companies that offshore high-tech and engineering jobs is that the U.S. math and science education system is not producing a sufficient number of engineers to fill a corporation's needs.

However, a new study from Duke University calls this argument bunk, stating that there is no shortage of engineers in the United States, and that offshoring is all about cost savings.

This report, entitled "Issues in Science and Technology" and published in the latest National Academy of Sciences magazine further explores the topic of engineering graduation rates of India, China and the United States, the subject of a 2005 Duke study.

In the report, concerns are raised that China is racing ahead of both the United States and India in its ability to perform basic research. It also asserts that the United States is risking losing its global edge by outsourcing critical R&D and India is falling behind by playing politics with education. Meanwhile, it considers China well-positioned for the future.

Duke's 2005 study corrected a long-heard myth about India and China graduating 12 times as many engineers as the United States, finding instead that the United States graduates a comparable number.

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2111347,00.asp

[Roland99]

3. What does Bushco care as long as brother Neil is making a buck.

[Zuiderelle]

4. Do you have a link? You reference Top 10 Cities, but they aren't on the chart.

I'm assuming there's a missing legend for this?

[Roland99]

5. Go here >>>>>

http://www.google.com/trends?q=asp%2C+js%2C+.net%2C+vb%2C+sql

[Zuiderelle]

6. Thanks.

Cool tool. :thumbsup:

[murloc]

7. apparently Sex is wanning to !

:) http://www.google.com/trends?q=sex&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

1. Delhi, India
2. Chennai, India
3. Cairo, Egypt
4. Rabat, Morocco
5. Izmir, Turkey
6. Mumbai, India
7. Istanbul, Turkey
8. Ankara, Turkey
9. Warsaw, Poland
10. Athens, Greece

Actually I don't dispute your conclusion, but I've been playing around with this query engine and I'm finding it hard draw conclusions based on it. If anything it seems to be based on mass population centers, rather than any kind of normalized results.

Still neat stuff though.

[TahitiNut]

8. Also interesting is the search for WMD is still high in Washington and Reston.

http://www.google.com/trends?q=WMD&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all

I have to wonder why the search for WMD is of such keen interest in Latvia.

[Selatius]

9. I suspect many Fortune 500 companies would rather use foreign workers because of lower wages

Why hire somebody in the US for 50,000/year when you could find a comparable answer in India for 17,000/year? This is what free trade is bringing about: A competition where workers are pitted against each other in a race to the bottom. The winner: Your employer.