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Re: Olaf's Thoughts About Development » Delphi back in Top Ten

TDelphiHobbyist — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:15:13 -0000

About.Delphi.com comes back with quite a large number of hits :)

Did you notice in the October Newsflash at the TIOBE site:
"Some languages such as Delphi have extreme low scores for Google blogs. This will be figured out a next time. "
We may be in for yet another bit of a boost.

Re: Olaf's Thoughts About Development » Delphi back in Top Ten

RIF — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:13:27 -0000

Careful how you read this statistics.

It looks all pretty with these 4 green arrows, but you could have green arrows while actual losing overall percentage of market. This would happen when the place(s) directly above Delphi just loses more. So for Tiobe only read the ratings and delta column, and indeed this month it look fine.

Olaf, I have followed your idea and tried the search on some more sites. First column is searching for "delphi programming", second is just searching for delphi.

delphibasics.co.uk 2 1550
delphi.wikia.com 17 5660
delphi-treff.de 6 20100
nldelphi.com 19 8020
developpez.com 0 14300

So even if delphibasics have more than 1000 pages on Delphi programming it counts very little. Also notice the French site developpez which is a general programming site but writes a fair amount about Delphi will not be counted in. That show that the stats are skewed towards the programming languages position in English speaking markets, e.g. US, where Delphi never have been a strong player and hence end up with a lower score.

Until Tiobe fix up their flawed data collection methods, the best one can do is understand how limited this stat is and follow Olaf's advice to avoid that your Delphi site is not counted.

Re: Olaf's Thoughts About Development » Delphi back in Top Ten

Rick — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:03:00 -0000

You should re-read Olaf's and Jim post - IT clearly explains "Why should I add Delphi Programming everywhere?"

Re: Olaf's Thoughts About Development » Delphi back in Top Ten

ibandyop — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:51:26 -0000

@Holger
You should add Delphi Programming to your page because Delphi is also a large Automotive conglomerate that has a lot of web pages and also is a place in Greece.
Probably TIOBE collection method cannot make the distinction easily.

Re: Olaf's Thoughts About Development » Delphi back in Top Ten

omonien — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:35:40 -0000

Well, not everywhere, but on all "relevant" pages. For example take this page:
http://www.flickdotnet.de/index.php/2008/09/del...
It's definitely on Delphi Programming, but it won't be counted, as it misses the phrase ....

Re: Olaf's Thoughts About Development » Delphi back in Top Ten

Holger — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:32:44 -0000

Why should I add Delphi Programming everywhere? Programming in or with Delphi kind of implicates Delphi Programming. So no need to spill any more Delphi Programming on my page about Delphi Programming in order to push the Google keyword stats for Delphi Programming. However, CodeGear should have some more Delphi Programming references ;) So, Happy Delphi Programming everybody :-) <This should boost the stats...>

Re: Olaf's Thoughts About Development » Delphi back in Top Ten

jimmckeeth — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:27:19 -0000

Excellent Olaf! If everyone does that and makes sure their pages about Delphi programming actually says Delphi Programming then we just might bump C# from number 8!