TechCrunch.com uniques down by ~60% since its AOL sale

By the same measure, then, Hacker News is down about the same: <a href="http://trends.google.com/websites?q=news.ycombinator.com&#38;geo=all&#38;date=ytd&#38;sort=0" rel="nofollow">http://trends.google.com/websites?q=news.ycombinator.com&#38...</a><p>Or, more likely, these trends sites are a waste of time.

Google Trends data is for search patterns, not unique visitors. It means that fewer people now search for "techcrunch.com," which is a good thing.