Google search autocompletions are not a great way to gauge public attitude. To start, they are personalized, which is probably why vim was on the author's list

Google search autocompletions are not a great way to gauge public attitude. To start, they are personalized, which is probably why vim was on the author's list at all. Secondly, they lack context. For instance, when Google auto completes "women shouldn't " with some sexist completion such as "drive", the resulting search is often full of blog articles orating _against_ sexism.