I think this is an example of someone trying to extrapolate data from a source that's incapable of providing the conclusions he wants. He’s using Google Trends

I think this is an example of someone trying to extrapolate data from a source that's incapable of providing the conclusions he wants. He’s using Google Trends to try to determine the popularity of programming languages which doesn’t logically track. I’ll give you one example of what I mean. He states that over the last 5 years searches for C# have remained flat and that VB.NET searches are going down. But in the last 5 years several very helpful .Net aggregation sites have gone up (dotnetkicks, asp.net weblogs, stackoverflow, etc...). That aggregation trend might cause people to search less That’s just one of many reasons why search results aren’t an accurate measure of language popularity.