Programming language mindshare according to Google

1. C, 1250000 (was #3 with 306000 hits).
2. BASIC, 1130000 (was #5 with 145000 hits).
3. C++, 1100000 (was #1 with 634000 hits).
4. Java, 1100000 (was #2 with 529000 hits).
5. Visual Basic, 1080000 (was #7 with 85500 hits).
6. PHP, 1050000 (had 109000 hits, min 107000).
7. Perl, 984000 (was #4 with 244000 hits).
8. C#, 867000 (was #9 with 48000 hits).
9. JavaScript, 797000 (was #8 with 52600 hits).
10. Python, 792000 (had 26600 hits).
11. Ruby, 677000 (new, had 4170 hits).
12. Delphi, 560000 (was #11 with 22000 hits).
13. Lua, 376000 (new, had 745 hits).
14. Ada, 240000 (was #16 with 15300 hits).

• The number of hits you get when searching for the name followed by the word programming, in quotes, with Google must be higher than the currently lowest placed name.
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• Lisp, 206000 (had 12800 hits).
• Fortran, 197000 (was #13 with 17400 hits).
• Assembly, 189000 (was #14 with 16900 hits).
• Pascal, 187000 (was #15 with 15900 hits).
• COBOL, 178000 (was #12 with 19700 hits).
• Scheme, 166000 (had 10400 hits).
• MATLAB, 150000 (had 6490 hits).
• Prolog, 138000 (had 11700 hits).
• Self, 118000 (had 7180 hits).
• AWK, 103000 (had 8480 hits).
• LOGO, 98100 (had 5240 hits).
• B, 85200 (had 5120 hits).
• Smalltalk, 53900 (had 3720 hits).
• APL, 52300 (had 3590 hits).
• TCL, 50100 (had 3030 hits).
• Haskell, 45300 (had 1140 hits).
• FORTH, 43300 (had 3400 hits).
• ML, 42400 (had 3370 hits).
• Icon, 39200 (had 4720 hits).
• Objective C, 36200 (had 1010 hits).
• REXX, 30200 (had 3070 hits).
• Ocaml, 29000 (had 1030 hits).
• BETA, 25500 (had 1950 hits).
• Emacs Lisp, 22600 (had 1270 hits).
• Eiffel, 21500 (had 1360 hits).
• Postscript, 20900 (had 1680 hits).
• Common Lisp, 20800 (had 1640 hits).
• Erlang, 20600 (had 1080 hits).
• Dylan, 19400 (had 5010 hits).
• Occam, 18600 (had 972 hits).
• AutoLISP, 18300 (had 1880 hits).
• PL/I, 14900 (had 1180 hits).
• Algol, 9940 (had 425 hits).
• Caml, 9180 (had 351 hits).
• F#, 3560 (had 8 hits).
• Miranda, 2040 (had 124 hits).
• HyperCard, 1690 (had 452 hits).
• SML, 1650 (had 377 hits).
• Comal, 1360 (had 200 hits).
• Modula 3, 1290 (had 261 hits).
• Modula, 934 (had 78 hits).
• Sather, 893 (had 173 hits).
• Modula 2, 875 (had 756 hits, min 755).
• Object Pascal, 786 (had 393 hits).
• BCPL, 761 (had 77 hits).
• Oberon, 715 (had 587 hits).
• Chill, 698 (had 69 hits).
• Snobol, 547 (had 299 hits).
• BLISS, 542 (had 86 hits).
• INTERCAL, 537 (had 348 hits).
• Simula, 535 (had 442 hits).
• Emerald, 372 (had 158 hits).
• Simula 67, 181 (had 46 hits).

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