>So, all the decline means is that the number of searches > for "Python programming" releative to all searches done is declining.
Which makes sense. There are an many python tutorial/code snippet sites, sites that list those type of python sites, as well as the python.org site which means that a Google search is becoming less and less necessary. I think the language is gaining more people because it's an excellent language and don't really care what rank it has. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list