Google Supports the JIPLFOG Index for Programming Languages
p. You may remember a “previous article”:http://devzone.zend.com/article/131 of mine where I introduced the JIPLFOG (Jayson’s Index for Programming Languages Found on Google). Now just one month later Google has responded with support for my efforts. “Google Trends”:http://www.google.com/trends popped out of the Google hatch yesterday *just* so that I could publish charts and have a real-time update for JIPLFOG. I can’t thank them enough.
p. I know you are excited to see the results, so “jump right over to JIPLFOG by Google”:http://www.google.com/trends?q=php%2C+ruby%2C+c%23%2C+java%2C+%22Visual+Basic%22&ctab=0&date=all&geo=all to see how PHP is doing on the index. I have to say, they did a really nice job for me and even included the ability to narrow the results by date range and geography! The only real limitation is that you can only graph 5 items at a time. I’m sure the requirements doc said 10, but I guess that’s what I get for free.
p. Oh, by the way. While you are there, you can try out other keywords that might be important to you as a web site owner in seeing what is popular, and when it was popular, and what might drive traffic to your site. It appears that you can hack the JIPLFOG interface (AKA “Google Trends”) to do general searches for other keywords. I’m really glad they left open that back door for any query. The “JIPLFOG”:http://www.jiplfog.org is great, but why waste such nice graphs on just my little pet project.
2 comments to “Google Supports the JIPLFOG Index for Programming Languages”
July 4th, 2006 at 1:00 am
Hi,
This is a cool concept you’ve come up with, and Google is also making a nice service for other searches too…
However, I see that some of the links refer to the Java island of Indonesia…
Adding a "-Indonesia" doesn’t seem to change the results of either the graph or what seem to be your addition of links
While removing Indonesia from search results might add a bias _against_ the results for the Java language if it were being discussed on Indonesian websites, having the option to remove it (successfully) might also show Java with less of a lead in the graph? At least maybe you could refine your code to (optionally) remove "Indonesia" (or something else common and exclusive to the island rather than langauge) from the articles on the right?
July 4th, 2006 at 1:13 am
Also, keep in mind that Indonesia is the world’s fourth largest country (not sure about web presence though but still…)…This is not to mention Java as a reference to coffee…Of course, "PHP" might be used by some organizations for some other acronym, but I haven’t heard of any…