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Monday May 18, 2009
09:09 AM
Are we the only people NOT gaming TIOBE?
http://www.pythonprogramminglanguage.info/2009/05/17/a-kind-reminder/
It would appear that the blatant republishing of other people's blogs for the purpose of stacking web search and blog search results has been going on for a while...
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because that's exactly how much difference there is. :-)
--Larry Wall in <10209@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
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How about a different tact? (Score:2)
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I believe TIOBE would have to consider TIOBE a programming language for that to work.
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I simply assumed... (Score:1)
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You're spotless in this; it's the scammers republishing content verbatim who deserve our ire.
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It's about the ads. (Score:2)
A lot of Perl stuff is re-published too. My stuff shows up all over the net in places I'd rather not be. I don't see them gaming TIOBE: they are gaming Google AdSense.
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Sure, but most of the reposting I see doesn't have a giant tiobe-matching "Python Programming" at the top of the page.