@marshall: I’ve found that only a very small percentage of visitors to most Quaker sites are actually the kind of business Friend you describe. I don’t think the entire body of Friends is big enough to make a dent in Google searches, even for our own denomination.
@all: I don’t want to make too much of this chart, it was just something curious. It might represent all sorts of things. For example, maybe two-word searches in Google have declined over the past few years. Or maybe it’s shifting demographics on the web and their different interests. I just typed in a bunch of denominations and they all drop the same way. I doubt it really has anything to do with us.

This was more just a Twitter-like post than a full-on blog post. This comes via a new service from Google that’s making the rounds of the tech blogs this morning. You get to to chart the popularity of search phrases. Typing in “quaker” or “quakers” is too broad (oats, parrots, assorted Pennsylvania companies and high school sports teams) so I did “quakers friends” which I’ve found works well to isolate posts on the religious society.
I’m not sure it means anything. Just interesting to see it decline over time.

What? No commentary or analysis? What do you think is going on? And what exactly is this graph measuring?