Redraw your own conclusions.
Back in July of 2001, I had fun looking up Google search results for a bunch of different terms, and listed them in the October issue of the magazine.
So we revisited those same items for this issue. Here are the results.
| Term | July 2001 | January 2005 |
| python | 2,080,000 | 91,210,000 |
| active x | 2,350,000 | 107,000,000 |
| gates | 3,020,000 | 78,200,000 |
| kde | 3,560,000 | 29,100,000 |
| gnome | 3,720,000 | 27,100,000 |
| perl | 7,650,000 | 115,000,000 |
| jesus | 8,800,000 | 78,200,000 |
| boy | 10,800,000 | 159,000,000 |
| solution | 13,300,000 | 507,000,000 |
| girl | 13,600,000 | 137,000,000 |
| microsoft | 20,200,000 | 721,000,000 |
| god | 24,300,000 | 172,000,000 |
| sun | 25,500,000 | 523,000,000 |
| sex | 28,400,000 | 211,000,000 |
| linux | 31,600,000 | 420,000,000 |
| business | 86,900,000 | 2,950,000,000 |
| have: | 231,000,000 | 3,970,000,000 |
- Doc Searls