TIOBE February 2016.... 15 ?!

[Sönke Ludwig via Digitalmars-d]

Am 03.02.2016 um 08:45 schrieb Ola Fosheim Grøstad:
> On Wednesday, 3 February 2016 at 07:06:47 UTC, cym13 wrote:
>> It's all true, D rose up 6 positions:
>> http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
>>
>> I don't quite know what the leading factor for that change was but it
>> sure will be great for its image.
>
> I don't think anyone takes Tiobe seriously. Here is the search trend for
> "dlang", "golang", "swift ios" and "rust (programming langauge)":
>
> https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=dlang%2C%20golang%2C%20swift%20ios%2C%20%2Fm%2F0dsbpg6&cmpt=q&tz=Etc%2FGMT-1
>
>
> golang and swift are soaring, rust is gaining ground and dlang is stable.
>

Maybe it's showing different results to you, but the numbers I get are 
tiny. Also, picking arbitrary search terms skews the results 
considerably. Results using Google's categorization instead:
https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=%2Fm%2F09gbxjr%2C%20%2Fm%2F010sd4y3%2C%20%2Fm%2F0dsbpg6%2C%20%2Fm%2F01kbt7&date=1%2F2009%2085m&cmpt=q&tz=Etc%2FGMT-1

Those are still the same tiny numbers, though, so there's really not 
much to infer from this.