High ranking of D on Google software technologies trends

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On Monday, 26 August 2013 at 00:00:30 UTC, Joseph Rushton 
Wakeling wrote:
> I was just thinking that it must be so, because if the ranking 
> was just a naive aggregate, or had any major contribution from 
> searches with alternative meanings, the single-letter-named 
> languages would blow all the others away.

Further evidence of that -- if you click through "Explore" for C, 
D or R, the interest over time is pretty much constant, 
suggesting that aggregate search volume has no semantic meaning 
in itself -- single letters are probably completely randomly 
distributed as search terms, across virtually all topics, meaning 
their overall volume must be huge.

Then look at the interest graphs for Java, HTML or SQL. Broad 
peaks, narrow troughs, almost certainly working weeks and 
weekends. Those searches are surely dominated by 
programming-related queries by working developers.

Peak interest in LaTeX presumably occurs at the same time as some 
interesting parties in San Francisco :-)