Programming Community Index

From: Martin Krischik (martin_at_krischik.com)
Date: 02/10/05 

Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:59:53 +0100

Hello,

when reading your "Programming Community Index for February 2005" I stumbled
across a strange "-tv" in your search patter. I am very much interested to
know why you exclude sites with the word "tv".

I made a little positive test on Google to see the impact of such exclusion
and I noticed that there are many legitimate sites featuring embedded
programming of "tv satelites", "tv satelite receiver", "software for
television production" or "Digital Tv Tuner".

In the top ten this might not make a big difference but if you look down I
fear the impact is significat. I wonder how many of ABAP 10 green arrows are
due to the fact tha ABAP is unsuitable for embedded programming. Or how many
of Ada 5 red arrows to the fact that embedded programming is the core arena
for Ada programming.

To find out I googled a bit on the top 3, the highest gainer and the highers
looser - and it seem my suspicion is true:

+"ABAP programming" 43.400
+"ABAP programming" -tv 42.300
Impact 2.5%

+"C++ programming" 1,430,000
+"C++ programming" -"tv" 1,390,000
Impact 2.8%

+"Java programming" 2.410.000
+"Java programming" -tv 2.270.000
Impact 5,8%

+"C programming" 1.580.000
+"C programming" -tv 1.480.000
Impact 6,3%

+"Ada programming" 52.000
+"Ada programming" -tv 46.800
Impact 10%

Looking further down I would hasard the guess that the "-tv" rule came into
force between Mar.04 and Jun.04 - there was a mayor shuffle at that time.

If that was true than all those red and green arrows are currently worthless
since they are calculated on a 12 month basis. And if my suspicion is true
12
month ago you collected you data with the old rules. Currently you are
comparing Apples mouse wich Apple tarts, realy.

Back to the original question: So why is it that you excluded "tv".

With Kind Regards

Martin Krischik 

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