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jwilliams
Interesting, but you've got to factor in the fact that C# is a much more specific search term than Ruby...

C# searches are probably mostly about C#. The Ruby result would also contain all the searches involving "Ruby" that aren't related to the language at all.

kxt
The C# 9-5 theory also supported by the long term view, showing yearly drops between mid-December till January.

http://www.google.com/trends?q=C%23%2C+ruby&ctab=0&g...

ntoshev
I hadn't noticed that Google has started to tokenize properly things like C, C++, C#.

Probably because I don't use them recently.

greyman
> C# is used by people that develop only on their 9-5, Mon-Fri job.

Heh, my case exactly. ;-)

cosmo7
Obviously the C# guys are on their yachts or flying their planes at the weekend. The Ruby people would have web access from their security guard jobs.
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chwolfe
As someone who codes in C# during the week, I would much rather play around with other languages on the weekend to gain new insight and motivation. If Ruby was a popular 9-5 language, I would expect to see a similar drop over the weekend.