• TechCrunch, Monday, February 16, 2009 3:45 PM

TechCrunch writer Robin Wauters notes that the term "Web 2.0" is fading, fast. She says the number of startups that contact TechCrunch touting their Web 2.0 features is visibly dropping, and "I hardly ever see it mentioned anymore on other technology blogs and news sites either."

According to Google Trends, which shows how often certain search terms are entered on a given day relative to total search volume, the term started being used in 2004, picking up in 2005 and then increasingly rapidly into 2007.

"After that, the trend is clearly downwards, falling back to the level it reached in early 2006 today," Wauters says. "If the trend continues, there should only be a handful of people left who scour search engines for 'Web 2.0' by 2011."

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