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svampab:

> I don't think TOIBE index is reliable source of the use of a language.

Note that they never claimed to measure the use of languages, and they make that point clear on their web page.

> It uses search engines to find, so it finds th most popular, that is
> not always equal to most used.

Exactly. Still, a popularity measure is /per se/ interesting.
I cannot resist to put an ad for my own flavour of the same idea:
  http://lang-index.sf.net

Cheers
G.