size of XQuery developer community

[Ken North]

>> I am not sure google trends at present is a good indicator of XQuery's uptake as searches across all major programming languages has slumped over the past 12 - 18 months. Personally I am more inclined to link this to the current economic downturn...

Hmm...

Both LINQ and cloud computing show a steady increase in the number of searches from 2007-2009. For LINQ searches, English ranked as the seventh language.
http://www.google.com/trends?q=LINQ%2C+%22cloud+computing%22&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

SaaS is up slightly in 2007-2009 versus 2004-2005.

XQuery versus Grails and Adobe AIR
http://www.google.com/trends?q=XQuery%2C+%22Adobe+AIR%22%2C+Grails&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=1

The number of searches for LINQ is an upward trend, along with some framework and platform-related searches.