Search Popularity of Different Names of Clicker
Clickers have a wide variety of formally defined names by different manufacturers and users, which include Audience Response System (ARS), Classroom Response System (CPS), Personal Response System, Student Response System (SRS). To explore the popularity of different keywords, I did a simple Google search for the different names listed in the table blow. It turns out that Personal Response System is the most popular name for a clicker system.
As the different "response systems" are dominantly popular online, "web clicker" is 20-50 times less popular showing that web based clicker system is still at its young age, however, growth in the area is inevitable and rapidly developing. In addition, there are only 19 hits of "free web clicker" and webclicker.org is the only true free web based student response system.
Table 1. Search Popularity of Names of Student Response Systems (Clicker).
Data summarized from Google Searches on 03/06/2014.
Names | Google with " " | |
Audience Response System | 37.3 M | 146 K |
Classroom Response System | 20.7M | 817 K |
Personal Response System | 177 M | 55.6 K |
Student Response System | 112 M | 124 K |
Response System | 537 M | 1.11 M |
Clicker | 7.50 M | |
Clickers | 1.15 M | |
Web Clicker | 6.19 M | 5.25 K |
Free Web Clicker | 19 |
Another more "ancient" name for clicker uses the word polling. It is now much less popular but still maintain a large user base. See table 2.
Table 2. Search Popularity of Names of Student Polling Systems (Clicker).
Data summarized from Google Searches on 03/06/2014.
Names | Google with " " | |
Audience Polling System | 41.8 M | 48.5 K |
Classroom Polling System | 1.07M | 12.6 K |
Personal Polling System | 11.4 M | 13 |
Student Polling System | 5.59 M | 1.5 K |
Polling System | 68.2 M | 127 K |
Polling | 18.3 M | |
Web Polling | 16.4 M | 14.6 K |
Web Polling System | 32.1 M* | 28 |
Free Web Polling System | 195 M* | 5 |
*These names are much less popular but they all include popular words such as free and web. So the results here are not meaningful to the original purposes.