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It's even worse than "Stop Citing TIOBE" makes it sound. The TIOBE rank is based on the number of hits reported from "25 search engines", which amount to:

  1) Google, on nine different TLDs
  2) Amazon, on seven TLDs
  3) EBay, on two TLDs
  4) wikipedia.org (which ends up defaulting to the English Wikipedia)
  5) microsoft.com (which only searches Microsoft documentation)
  6) sharepoint.com (similarly, Microsoft 365 documentation)
  7) rakuten.co.jp
  8) walmart.com

Only one of these is actually a web search engine; there are actually more shopping web sites included than search engines. Bing, and its various mirrors, were apparently all excluded because they don't display the number of hits on the result page.

And yes, this only adds up to 23. The TIOBE web site doesn't explain the discrepancy.