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Re: Google Trends for 3D CAD Companies: Whose Competing?

jonnie — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 03:24:28 -0000

Interesting but I think meaningless.

Most people using CADCAM products will already know the players - search engine traffic may have little to do with sales.

Corporate users will not use search engines, they know the players and may buy 100s of seats at a time so big buyers but unlikely to show in these results. When I worked in the industry the big sales were to car manufacturers, aircraft manufacturers and so on - these people dont use search engines to find the websites, they know them off by heart already.

Similarly it would be meaningless to count online articles or similar as a measure of who is talking about what - the employees of big customers do not usually vent steam on internet user groups - they talk direct to managerial level or similar of the relevevent company.

Companies with hard to remember URLs often get googled although the person searching already knows the website, they just cant remember the URL.

I would think that the trend for each company taken individually - ie whether they are falling over time or rising might be of some relevence but the comparison between companies seems weak to me.

Also does not taken into account resellers - people may not be searching for the products but who sells them.

Nope means nothing to me.

Jon

Re: Google Trends for 3D CAD Companies: Whose Competing?

die guy 44 — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:07:20 -0000

so is this like alexa? is the data accurate? what about mastercam

Re: Google Trends for 3D CAD Companies: Whose Competing?

Fred — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:24:03 -0000

Oleg's comparison was interesting, but I noticed Solid Edge was very low, likely because the word was concatenated. This is likely more accurate, http://www.google.com/trends?q=solidworks%2C+ca...

Re: Google Trends for 3D CAD Companies: Whose Competing?

Josh — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:59:14 -0000

Hey Oleg, thanks for bringing that up. I was interested mainly in just traffic to the site, because even though the domain names may not be associated with the product, the traffic that goes to the domain is part of what they offer.

The NX/SolidEdge, Autocad and Catia all reside within Siemens, AutoDesk and Dassault, respectively. Therefore, what a company does as far as marketing and online search engine optimization go along way toward driving traffic toward that site. Which in turn is what Google Trends for website looks at.

The Search trends reveal what has been fairly typical over the years. if you look at another set that includes autocad it matches the SERP's with exactness.

Again, thanks for mentioning that because the search trends also go a long way to show the competitive advantage a company may have. See ya!

Re: Google Trends for 3D CAD Companies: Whose Competing?

oleg — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:36:57 -0000

this is wrong comparison in my view. you cannot compare siemens search popularity (really not related to PLM at all, since nobody think about siemens as PLM vendor only), ptc.com and autodesk. To have more fair comparison put autocad, solidworks, catia, pro-e (http://www.google.com/trends?q=solidworks%2C+ca...) and you will see different picture.