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Are we the only people NOT gaming TIOBE?

Alias on 2009-05-18T14:09:11

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...

http://www.pythonprogramminglanguage.info/1969/12/

How about a different tact?

Mr. Muskrat on 2009-05-18T15:19:36

We should start tagging everything with 'TIOBE programming' to see how long it takes to show up in the results.

Re:How about a different tact?

chromatic on 2009-05-18T18:30:29

I believe TIOBE would have to consider TIOBE a programming language for that to work.

Re:How about a different tact?

Mr. Muskrat on 2009-05-18T18:37:38

I guess that shows that I don't care enough to bother knowing how TIOBE works.

I simply assumed...

ralsina on 2009-05-19T03:00:22

... this was some guy's personal "planet-like" site, and wanted a link back to my blog.

No need to see a conspiracy.

Re:I simply assumed...

chromatic on 2009-05-19T03:21:20

You're spotless in this; it's the scammers republishing content verbatim who deserve our ire.

Re:I simply assumed...

ralsina on 2009-05-19T03:50:13

But republishing is not bad. This very blog is published verbatim in planet perl after all ;-)

Then again, I don't know this guy's intentions, really, so I better stop guessing.

It's about the ads.

brian_d_foy on 2009-05-20T06:56:00

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.

Re:It's about the ads.

Alias on 2009-05-20T09:29:40

Sure, but most of the reposting I see doesn't have a giant tiobe-matching "Python Programming" at the top of the page.