Re: Programming language popularity ranking

[Martin Krischik <martin@krischik.com>]

Manuel G. R. wrote:

> Martin Krischik wrote:
>> Jeffrey Carter wrote:
>> 
>>>What can we make of this site's objectivity?
>>>
>>>"February Headline: Fourth increase in a row for both Java and C#".
>> 
>> 
>>>Java shows a decrease of 4.22%, and both Java and C#'s positions have
>>>dropped.
>> 
>> 
>> "We offer out-of-the-box solutions for the programming languages C, C++,
>> C# and Java."

Look closely: "C, C++, C# and Java." not "Java, C, C++ and C#." Maybe they
changed the algorithm to fit there buisiness aim.

>> What do you expect. But since they have a very primitive algorithm I
>> decided to add "Ada programming" to my signature.
> 
> Me too.
> 
> Let's look at the graphic. What did they do in Mar-04? A change in the
> algorithm, I guess, but the former percentages look more confident.

Prehaps is't that strange "-tv". I removes any site with a hit on "tv".

+"Ada programming" 52.000
+"Ada programming" -tv 46,800
Impact 10%

+"ABAP programming" 43,400 
+"ABAP programming" -tv  42,300
Impact 2.5%

+"C programming"  1,580,000
+"C programming" -tv  1,480,000
Impact 6,3%

Yet another mytery solved. Remeber the green and red arrows are calculated
over the year not the month! Never trust a statistic you have not
falseified yourself.

Of corse this has been a google search only. To see the hole picture one
need to make searches on MSN, Yahoo and google groups.

But I did make little test on +tv - there are many legitimate sites having
both programming and tv.

The real problem is that we did such a check and now how cheaty the stats
are - but the seminformed do not.

I for one will drop them a mail. BTW: Ada has such a hard hit because of the
use of Ada in tv satelites and tv satelite receivers. Pages on that
subjecte are not counted. And I will point that out to them - if it helps I
don't know.

Martin
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