> Are we going to pretend that there are really more searches for C and Visual Basic than for Javascript?
Probably. A lot of things I would add the language name to while searching for another language I qiickly learned tagging MDN on instead gets the best JS info, and once on MDN, navigating between topics rather than doing a new search for a related topic os much more common than the haphazard set of resources that you end up with for many languages.
Of course, that's a minor reason among the vast number of reasons why number of web searches explicitly targeting the language is a horrible measure of language popularity or impact.
> The ratings are calculated by counting hits of the most popular search engines. The search query that is used is +"<language> programming". The number of hits determines the ratings of a language.
Probably. A lot of things I would add the language name to while searching for another language I qiickly learned tagging MDN on instead gets the best JS info, and once on MDN, navigating between topics rather than doing a new search for a related topic os much more common than the haphazard set of resources that you end up with for many languages.
Of course, that's a minor reason among the vast number of reasons why number of web searches explicitly targeting the language is a horrible measure of language popularity or impact.