I don't object to the silliness, I object to it being called a measure!<div>The number that shows up on the search results page is a pure</div><div>guess made by a part of the system that doesn't have access to</div> <div>the actual index. Really, Google Trends is a much better tool.</div><div><a href="http://www.google.com/trends/explore#cat=0-5-31&q=Racket&cmpt=q">http://www.google.com/trends/explore#cat=0-5-31&q=Racket&cmpt=q</a></div> <div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 11:30 AM, John Clements <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:clements@brinckerhoff.org" target="_blank">clements@brinckerhoff.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> 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.<br> <br> Merry Christmas!<br> <span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br> John<br> <br> </font></span><br>____________________<br> Racket Users list:<br> <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/users" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/users</a><br> <br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>~jrm<br> </div>