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Natural language processing trend

Updated · Compare · Confirmed by Next Big PulseEvery source we read for this search, weighted and blended into one weekly line of overall interest, 0 to 100 of its own peak. The last week is provisional. What it's made of

Natural language processing is no longer trending: the rise no longer passes the Next Big Pulse's check, so read the chart below as history, not a forecast.

Data qualityHow well its sources carry the Pulse's line over the last 13 weeks. High data quality: three or more steady sources, from different companies, carry the line lately. Every label
High
StageRegular: neither exploding nor peaked: rising slower, holding, or not yet doubled. Every label
Regular
VerdictThe Pulse's verdict on Hunger and Heat. Hunger is how many people search for it; Heat is how much people post and see about it. Fading: hunger down and Heat not up: fewer people look for it. Every label
Fading

No longer trending as of November 2, 2026. It last passed our check on October 24, 2026. The rise no longer passes the Pulse's check.

Next Big Pulse.
natural language processing: weekly interest over three years, +17% in a year.

Four things to know

  1. Natural language processing is tracked on the Next Big Pulse, +17% in a year, about 5K searches a month in the US.
  2. Hunger + Heat: fading, fewer people look for it.
  3. Off its peak: at 79% of its two-year peak; searches at this point were higher a year later 73% of the time, against 73% for any search.
  4. It no longer passes our check (last on October 24, 2026): read the chart as history.

What is natural language processing?

Natural language processing refers to the field of computer science and AI that lets software read, interpret and generate human language. People search it to learn what it is, how it differs from large language models, and which APIs and libraries offer it. In practice, students, developers and analysts use NLP for sentiment analysis, search, chatbots, document extraction and healthcare records. The rise of LLMs has renewed interest in the older term, and many searches now compare NLP with LLMs. It is a broad academic subject rather than a product, though it underpins many software and education businesses.

Behind the rise

Rising around it: the related search natural language processing api (+120%).

Where the line turned

  1. 1Turned up Jan 2025. Wikipedia views moved first.
  2. 2Turned up Jun 2025. Google web search moved first.
  3. 3Turned down Apr 2026. Wikipedia views moved first, 1 week before the next source.

Things that happened around the rise, never a claim of what caused it.

Searches a month
5K
The Pulse now, US, between 3K and 7K
Rise so far
Off its peak
At 79% of its 2-year peak. Searches here were higher a year on 73% of the time (any search 73%)
Overall interest, a year
+17%
from 4K to 5K searches a month (rough)
Last 3 months
-35%
no longer trending
Stage
Regular
growing faster each month
Trend score
55/100
Worth building on, from eight parts: how it's made is below the numbers
Peaks
All year
no seasonal peak
A click is worth
$10.07
what advertisers pay
Ranking difficulty
50/100
takes a good page

Searches a month added are rough: right direction about 3 times in 4, size within ×2 (check 14a). What that means.

How the trend score is made
The trend score, part by part
PartReadingWeightPoints
Growth over a year34/10025%8.5
The last weeks30/10015%4.4
Fits a business (judged in review)70/10015%10.5
Interest now44/10010%4.4
Kept rising100/10010%10.0
What a click is worth100/10010%10.0
Posts about it98/10010%9.8
Searches a month78/1005%3.9
Before adjustments100%61.5
Adjustment×0.9: a noisy line
Trend score55/100

How worth building on a search is, not how big it is. Every weight is on the methodology.

What's next for natural language processing

Direction
No longer trending: overall interest stopped rising.
What it opens
Courses, templates and hands-on tutorials that teach NLP tasks with modern language model APIs, or small tools that do one text job such as sentiment or extraction well.

The next wave inside it

Searches rising fastest alongside natural language processing. Breakout means more than five thousand percent.

  1. walmart near meBreakout
  2. robotics programmingBreakout
  3. database optimizationBreakout
  4. node.js backendBreakout
  5. python programming tutorialBreakout
  6. python web frameworkBreakout
  7. software testing strategiesBreakout
  8. deep learning tutorialsBreakout

New this week: nlp natural language processing, robotics programming, database optimization, python programming tutorial, docker containerization.

Is natural language processing really trending?

Fading: fewer people look for it.

  1. Hungerwhat people go looking for-33% in 3 monthsFrom Google web search, YouTube search, Bing searches, Wikipedia views, web popularity, Wikipedia views in other languages
  2. Heatwhat the crowd is shown, unaskedlevel over 3 monthsFrom web mentions, Bluesky posts a week

Real when people are shown it and go looking for it; Early when the crowd is shown it first; Hype when it's shown and not sought; Quiet demand when searches rise with little talk. How the two sides are read.

How popular is natural language processing, and is it still growing?

Natural language processing draws about 5K searches a month in the US, on the Next Big Pulse. No longer growing: Natural language processing last passed our check on October 24, 2026. The rise no longer passes the Next Big Pulse's check, so read the chart as history, not a forecast.

  1. -35%in 3 monthsJul 2026 to this week
  2. +17%in 1 yearOct 2025 to this week
  3. +71%in 2 yearsOct 2024 to this week

Each figure compares overall interest at the end of the window with its start.

Who searches for it, and why

Most people search it to learn about it.

Where it's searched most

Interest in natural language processing by US state, against the busiest state.

  1. Kansas100
  2. New York46
  3. District of Columbia42
  4. Virginia38
  5. California38
  6. Massachusetts33
  7. Maryland29
  8. Rhode Island29
  9. Connecticut29
  10. Colorado25

What people ask about natural language processing

Questions

  • how to natural language processing
  • how to learn natural language processing
  • how to use natural language processing
  • how to define natural language processing
  • how to master natural language processing
  • how natural language processing works

Best

  • best natural language processing books
  • best natural language processing course
  • best natural language processing books pdf
  • best natural language processing ai
  • best natural language processing books for beginners
  • best natural language processing textbook

Compared

  • natural language processing vs large language models
  • natural language processing vs neuro linguistic programming
  • natural language processing vs machine learning
  • natural language processing vs llm
  • natural language processing vs deep learning
  • natural language processing vs ai

Apps and tools

  • natural language processing app
  • natural language processing applications in ai

For whom

  • natural language processing for dummies
  • natural language processing for dialects of a language a survey
  • natural language processing for social science ucla
  • natural language processing for sentiment analysis
  • natural language processing for beginners
  • natural language processing for smart healthcare

Also searched

  • natural language processing applications
  • natural language processing approach
  • natural language processing apple
  • natural language processing meaning
  • natural language processing methods
  • natural language processing meaning in tamil

What's built around it

The apps, code and videos natural language processing already has: where the market is, and where it isn't yet.

Apps, 23 in the store

  1. AI Chatbot - NovaSCALEUP YAZILIM HIZMETLERI ANONIM SIRKETI · 4.6★ from 127K ratings · since 2023
  2. AI Chatbot - Ask Me AnythingEVOLLY.APP PTE. LTD · 4.6★ from 16K ratings · since 2023
  3. Chatbot AI - Smart Search BotCodespace Dijital Hizmetler Anonim Sirketi · 4.7★ from 15K ratings · since 2024
  4. Genora AI – Chat Bot AssistantMOBIWAYS LTD · 4.4★ from 10K ratings · since 2025
  5. Monica AI: Ultimate AI AssistBUTTERFLY EFFECT PTE. LTD. · 4.7★ from 7K ratings · since 2023

Open-source code, 71K repos

  1. fighting41love/funNLP84K stars
  2. explosion/spaCy34K stars
  3. sebastianruder/NLP-progress23K stars
  4. keon/awesome-nlp19K stars
  5. graykode/nlp-tutorial15K stars

Reference

  1. Natural language processing16K reads in 30 days

Brands and companies behind it

Who natural language processing names, makes it or builds it, from Wikidata, SEC EDGAR and GitHub. Each name says where it comes from.

Sources

The chart is the Next Big Pulse: every source with a weekly or monthly reading for natural language processing, blended into one line of overall interest. A trend counts only when independent sources confirm the rise, each read against what every other search we track did there.

What the line for natural language processing is made of, by its share of the last year
  • Google web search25%since Oct 2021
  • Web popularity19%since Oct 2021
  • Wikipedia views16%since Oct 2023
  • Wikipedia views in other languages16%since Oct 2023
  • Web mentions13%since Oct 2022
  • Bing searches11%since Sep 2024
  • YouTube search1%since Jul 2022

Data quality: high, three or more steady sources, from different companies, carry the line lately. The last week rests on fewer sources: it isn't in Wikipedia views yet. How the grade works

Independent sources, and whether each rose with natural language processing
SourceRose with itThis search, in a yearThe typical search there
Bing searchesNo rise above typical
Wikipedia viewsRose+13%6,911 → 7,805 views a week-17%the typical search there
Bluesky postsNo rise above typical
Hacker News mentionsNo rise above typical
Research papersNo rise above typical
New York Times articlesNo rise above typical
Wikipedia views of “Natural language processing”, weekly, two years (16K in the last 30 days)
Research papers a year (OpenAlex), 131,416 in all
  1. 192019: 6892
  2. 202020: 8296
  3. 212021: 10878
  4. 222022: 11970
  5. 232023: 16822
  6. 242024: 23305
  7. 252025: 30709
  8. 262026: 22544

Searches a month is the Pulse's reading now, in Google Ads' scale for the US; cost per click and ranking difficulty are Google Ads keyword estimates.

Google's index for it sat level for years and then jumped about 7.1× within the last one, the shape a change in Google's counting leaves, but a source outside Google rose with it, so the rise is confirmed: Wikipedia views (Natural language processing): 6,911 → 7,805 views a week, +13% on the year against a library median of -17%.

The same search on Google Trends · How we read every source

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Questions

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  1. Is natural language processing still popular in 2026?

    No. Natural language processing is no longer trending: overall interest stopped rising with its searches.

  2. How many people search for natural language processing?

    About 4,764 searches a month in the US, on the Next Big Pulse. It's searched most, for its size, in Kansas.

  3. When do searches for natural language processing peak?

    It doesn't follow a season. Its busiest week in five years was in September 2026.

  4. What's rising alongside natural language processing?

    The searches rising fastest with it are walmart near me, robotics programming and database optimization: often the next wave inside a trend.

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Data as of November 2, 2026. First seen October 11, 2026.