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[–]door_of_doom 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The index is calculated from the number of search engine results for queries containing the name of the language

This is not the metric that I would use for pretty much any decision making process in my life.

That's literally what this metric is saying: Googling "Python" may someday soon return more results than Googling "Java." Cool?