First it's telling us how Facebook has (briefly?) overtaken Google in the US, and now Hitwise, the web metrics company, is telling us about another Google property - Google Wave - fading into, well, near-obscurity.
You'll recall the splash that Google Wave made when it launched last May, and the interest when it went wider in October. Everyone wanted to try it... and then everyone tried it and couldn't figure out what to do with it, and how to keep spammers out, and how to find other people who were using it.
Result: nobody goes there any more. Perhaps this should be renamed Google Tumbleweed - to go along with Google Nostalgia (aka StreetView, which shows you all those pictures of the now-defunct Woolworths stores) and Google Bzzzt.. although Buzz does seem to be picking up a little interest. Even so, this isn't how you would expect a prime collaboration tool to be going.
Or is Wave being unfairly dismissed? Are you all finding fabulous uses for it? (Because I have to admit that we aren't.) Tell all. Please.
