The Indeed job search engine has a nifty feature that lets you graph job trends for a set of key words or phrases. Here’s the graph for Semantic Web and RDF, OWL, and Semantic Web services (click to enlarge or modify):

Adding in some other new web technologies (RSS and Web 2.0) helps put this in context:

And mixing in Java provides a lesson in humility:

But maybe there are a lot of ads for baristas that are throwing the numbers off.

Related posts:

1. Wikimatix explains Google’s hot search trends
2. Blackbook, a graph analytic platform for semantic web data
3. Peter Patel-Schneider’s Semantic Web talk at Google on the Semantic Web
4. SICoP’s vision for the semantic web
5. Semantic Web Tutorial by Ivan Herman