As a follow on from my last post on the 18 Bible translations across the literal-to-dynamic range here’s a look at Google Trends for Bible translations over the last year.
Bible version search trends
This graph shows Bible version trends in Google searches over the period April 2008 to March 2009. The search made was "Revised Standard Version"|RSV bible,"new american standard bible"|nasb,"New Living Translation"|nlt bible,"New American Bible"|nab bible,"the message" bible. Note that the NIV is most popular but has been left out as it is about 5 times as popular as the NASB in Google’s trend data. This means this graph is more concerned with the also rans however other translations mentioned in the “18 versions” post had decidely lower rankings and so were excluded so you can consider these as positions 2-6 in Bible version popularity stakes.
| “revised standard ve… |
|
1.00 |
| “new american standa… |
|
2.30 |
| “new living translat… |
|
1.24 |
| “new american bible”… |
|
1.56 |
| “the message” bible |
|
1.28 |
