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Not answering the main thesis of the article, but I found this interesting: I've made some googlefight-s. Turns out that Linus Torvalds has more google results
by nadam 15y ago
Not answering the main thesis of the article, but I found this interesting:
I've made some googlefight-s. Turns out that Linus Torvalds has more google results than most of the absolute top pop/rockstars, (much more google results than John Lennon) Other famous open source developers are pretty 'weak' compared to famous musicians though, so Linus is an absolute outlier.
Ordered by 'num. of google-results popularity':
Britney Spears: 5730000 results
Michael Jackson: 5650000 results
Linus Torvalds: 3640000 results
James Hetfield: 1850000 results
Elton John: 1740000 results
John Lennon: 1560000 results
Jim Morrison: 698000 results
Jimmy Hendrix: 469000 results
Richard Stallman: 149000 results
John Resig: 43400 results
- dagw 15y agoTurns out that Linus Torvalds has more google results than most of the absolute top pop/rockstars, (much more google results than John Lennon) Though to be fair, John Lennon wasn't very active on mailing lists, and didn't even have a blog.
- BrandonM 15y agoMy thoughts exactly. And Linus's name was not misspelled like Jimi Hendrix's name was.
- tzs 15y agoI get a lot more when I Google for most of those. I'm using their names in quotes. For example: 158 million, Britney Spears 162 million, Michael Jackson 33 million, Elton John 30 million, John Lennon 2.7 million, Linus Torvalds 1.8 million, Richard Stallman 0.3 million, John Resig