i just found google trends and used it to compare popularity of render engines:
guess what’s vray 
details:
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up up and away!!!
Hehe. I knew that 
i dont like that last drop though in vray
Impressive to say the least. Cmon, vlado, show us some nice car you bought yourself as a treat for all your hardwork and success
this one
nice render. final render? hahahaha
wow, where’s Brazil?
Typing ‘brazil’ into google doesnt exactly leave you with many rendering based results, so it just pushes all the others off the scale.
of course, maybe they should have called it “Rayzil”
rayzilla
Looking at these results Chaos Group reigns in Vietnam. Total monopoly and country domination:grin:
Vlado, you should apply for the President there;) he, he
Z.
I have to wonder though, how many of those searches were for “Vray +crack”…
Haha, I’ve wondered the same thing.
My thoughts exactly.
Would also explain the drop in the past 30 days, after SP1 and its c***k came out in respective order.
People got sorted :mrgreen:
Jokes apart, i tried Brazil R/S, and fryrender.
Brazil returns no results in any combination i tried (splutterfish brazil, brazil R/S, brazil render, brazil rendering system), while fry started getting some attention from around the time it released the demo (so i’d take it it’s fairly accurate, in that respect)
anyone tried brazil 2 for rendering lately how is it?
US soccer takes out Brazil, 2-1
South Bend Tribune - Aug 27 2004
Copa America: Mexico stuns Brazil 2-0 in opener
International Herald Tribune - Jun 28 2007
Brazil 2-0 Argentina Half-Time Copa America 2007 Final - Real Madrid’s Julio Baptista Opens, Roberto Ayala Scores Own-Goal
World Cup Latest - Jul 15 2007
and so on and so forth…
Guys in “Culifornia” likey MR too
The regional breakdown there is interesting
That’s it… I’m moving 
Makes sense though, probably 1/2 of the fx guys are here and MR is well entrenched
Check out the searches this month http://www.google.com/trends?q=vray%2C+mental+ray%2C+maxwell+render%2C+final+render%2C+renderman&ctab=0&geo=all&date=2008-1&sort=0