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title: "Trend: Who works the hardest and knows the least?"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/5/14/trend-who-works-the-hardest-and-knows-the-least.md"
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published: "2006-05-14T22:45:00"
updated: "2006-05-14T22:45:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Now here's an interesting thought from Google Trends: Which country outsources the most work in .NET? I'd love to say that Israel is third just because we care so much about technology etc. but I think the Truth may be…"
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# Trend: Who works the hardest and knows the least?

By Roy Osherove May 14, 2006 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published May 14, 2006; technical details may be outdated.

Now here's an interesting thought from Google Trends:

Which country outsources the most work in .NET?

I'd love to say that Israel is third just because we care so much about technology etc. but I think the Truth may be somewhere in the space between "we work cheap for people overseas" and "we work really hard on our own stuff".

Of course, a cynical bastard might say that the graphs merely show the amount of **lack of knowledge** by these regions, which forces them to search Google, but I'd say that was a big mistake. Hmm. I'm sure.

I wonder what happens when you put "Java" in there.

_\[via_ [_Firoz_](http://www.firoz.name/2006/05/13/google-trends-net-aspnet-c-vbnet/)_\]_

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