A year ago Bernhard Fischer-Wasels blogged about how many APEX application pages he found with Google (search for inurl:/pls/htmldb). On the 23-Dec-2005 he found about 19.000 entries.
How many do you thing do we find 1 year later? Guess…
Google finds 162.000 entries!!!
What an increase! How many do you guess do we have next year? 
December 28th, 2006 at 12:27
don’t forget to count inurl:/pls/apex
December 28th, 2006 at 14:54
Edward you are right! But the last time I checked the inurl:/pls/apex search it was ignorable (just 640 entries) compared to the htmldb search. But maybe that changes if we search next year…
March 8th, 2007 at 09:04
And that does not show sites that are setup with different paths from /pls/htmldb
(quite easy to do)
for instance I set the apex modhandler to /widget
(/widget/f?p=….)
to bad google can’t search inurl:f?p= (it ignores ? and =)
June 17th, 2007 at 03:44
Very interesting
July 28th, 2009 at 00:04
That is for sites not firewalled – we have a few open, but the majority not – I would guess the growth rate as far higher than 19000 to 162000.
What a brilliant product – but when oh when is 4.0 going to be released.