See the new Google Trends result for Perl. Interestingly, there are breakdowns by city, region and language.

Example: top cities:

  1. Bangalore India
  2. Chiyoda Japan
  3. Tokyo Japan
  4. San Francisco United States
  5. Osaka Japan
  6. Seattle United States
  7. Munich Germany
  8. San Diego United States
  9. New York United States
  10. Berlin Germany

-xdg

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Re: Google Trends and Perl
by Scott7477 (Chaplain) on May 12, 2006 at 23:14 UTC
    The top ten languages look like this:
    1. Japanese
    2. Russian
    3. English
    4. German
    5. Swedish
    6. French
    7. Finnish
    8. Italian
    9. Polish
    10. Dutch
    It would appear that there may be significant amounts of advice/discussion out there regarding Perl that those of us using only English may be missing out on...
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      If you click on the "normalized" link, you'll get to a page that says this:

      just because a particular region isn't on the Top Regions list for the term "haircut" doesn't necessarily mean that people there have decided to stage a mass rebellion against society's conventions. It could be that people in that region [...] search for so many other topics unrelated to haircuts that searches for "haircut" make up a very small portion of the search volume from that region when compared to other regions.

      So Japanese being on top of the list doesn't imply that people who speaks Japanese search more about Perl that people who speaks English. I see it as a proportion, where for example, 4 out of 10 Japanese google for Perl while only 3 out of 10 English do.

      --
      David Serrano

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