Really, how seriously does one need to take a language popularity index regardless of context?
Similarly he does not see an increase in searches for "objective-c tutorial" and assumes the language is in decline. In reality there might be growth in terms like "ios tutorial" or "iphone sdk tutorial" which his metrics don't track.
Ruby and Javascript are made infinitely more popular because of projects like Rails, jQuery and node. A language like Python has no obvious framework helping drive adoption, so most information out there would be language-centric versus framework centric.
http://www.google.com/trends/explore?hl=en-US#q=Python%20tut...
Not including ember, backbone, angular, …
Although it seems to me that the amount of tutorials on a language/framework do not have to have much in common with their popularity but with the beginner/pro-ratio. (under the assumption that mostly beginners write (for TIOBE) or read (for PYPL) tutorials)