[Coco] [Color Computer] RE: DjVu misconceptions

[Alex Kritikos]

I did a little googling of my own:

search for "tandy color computer" -> 387,000 pages
search for "ibm pc" -> 22,300,000 pages

Since when do CocoNuts care if their stuff is "obscure" anyways?

On 7/14/05, James Diffendaffer <jdiffendaffer at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu Jul 14 09:23:24 EDT 2005, John W. Linville wrote:
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> >> Since the change in license terms the format's use has started to >take
> >> off just like PDF did when it's license terms changed.
> >
> >Of which, I see only anecdotal evidence provided by advocates here.
> >
> >Here is my own (somewhat less) anecdotal evidence of obscurity:
> >
> > Google for "djvu" -- ~980,000 hits
> > Google for "pdf" -- ~440,000,000 hits
> 
> And a search just a minute ago shows these numbers:
> Google for "djvu" -- ~1,640,000 hits
> Google for "pdf" -- ~435,000,000 hits
> 
> <sarcasm>
> Gee, it's popularity just grew by over half a million hits in less
> than one day and pdf dropped over 5 million. Just as valid
> non-anecdotal evidence it's popularity is taking off and pdf is
> plummetting in popularity.
> </sarcasm>
> 
> What is the magical number djvu must surpass not to be obscure anyway?
> That wasn't listed in the definition for the word.
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