Follow us on TwitterDuring November, more the volume of searches on the term “netbook” exceeded the volume of searches for “notebook” for the first time.
Here is a chart from Google Trends.
Google Trends 2009 USA Only Chart
It appears that the crossover took place around Black Friday and is tied to a surge in search activity related to the increase in shopping.
Of course, the search volume on “laptop” (not shown here), still exceeds these.
What make this interesting, is that it occured at a time when Microsoft and PC manufacturers are working hard to move the focus away from netbooks to laptops, where the margins are better.
One other observation, this trend is only local to the USA.
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