[racket] Racket now has 360K hits in Google "verbatim"

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 <clements at 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
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