I don't object to the silliness, I object to it being called a measure! The number that shows up on the search results page is a pure guess made by a part of the system that doesn't have access to the actual index. Really, Google Trends is a much better tool. http://www.google.com/trends/explore#cat=0-5-31&q=Racket&cmpt=q
On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 11:30 AM, John Clements <cleme...@brinckerhoff.org>wrote: > Before Joe points it out: yes, this is a silly measure. And yet, it > appears to be (a substantial component of) the TIOBE index--another silly > measure. The actual news is this: Using google's "verbatim" results, the > query +"Racket Programming" is reported as having "About 360,000 results". > Given that last month's result was something like 20K, I'm a wee bit > suspicious. However, I'm never one to look a gift horse in the mouth. > > Merry Christmas! > > John > > > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users > > -- ~jrm
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