Comments for Google thinks Open Source is winning tag:bradchoate.com,2007://4- 2006-03-20T00:25:08Z The man, the legend. Movable Type -en-trunk--20070910 tag:bradchoate.com,2003://4.1576-comment:999 Comment from Mike Goodspeed on 2003-05-08 Mike Goodspeed http://hope.homedns.org What came as a shock to me is that if you screw up the "I'm Feeling Lucky" quick-search feature in Mozilla Firebird (and others) and try to do an "I'm Feeling Lucky" search on nothing (actually, the search string "%s") it takes you to GNU.org.

I say Mozilla Firebird because they have a quicksearch folder that is used for bookmarklets and if you click on "I'm Feeling Lucky Quicksearch", you go to GNU.org. It took me a while to figure out why it was doing that, so here's the regular google search.

]]> 2003-05-08T23:53:16Z tag:bradchoate.com,2003://4.1576-ping:780 Open source takes the lead Tribblescape http://tribble.dreamhost.com/archives/20030508_open_source_takes_the_lead.php Brad Choate performs an interesting experiment: according to Google, open source products have picked up more popular mindshare than their closed source commercial counterparts. This certainly isn't an accurate representation of how many people are usi... 2003-05-08T22:03:10Z tag:bradchoate.com,2003://4.1576-ping:782 http://new.waffle.wootest.net/past/000167.php Waffle http://new.waffle.wootest.net/past/000167.php 2003-05-09T19:53:23Z