GitHub advanced search default behaviour

Question

I'm new to Github and just want to browse through repos to find interesting ones.
I want, say, all ruby repos with more than 100 followers. I go to advanced search and try "followers:100" and get only repos with EXACTLY 100 followers (4 at the moment).
That differs from what i expect to be default behavior - find repos with 100 or more followers (more like Stackoverflow search works).
I am quite frustrated, because I can't get what is expected to be basic search functionality from a very popular site, and that makes me think that I'm obviously not understanding something very simple (because I think it is not possible for Github not to have such functions).
So is there a way for me to get the desired result?

Answer 1

Update January 2013 (source: "A whole new code search")

followers:>100

(intervals are supported: followers:100..150)

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Original answer (April 2011)

 followers:[100 TO *]

should do what you want: see your query with 100 or more followers.
(Note: the "TO" needs to be in uppercase)

(Source: New and Improved Search)

For example, we can search:

• for people with a username fuzzily similar to ‘chacon’
• who use Ruby as their primary language,
• have at least 5 repos and
• at least one follower:

Answer 2

You might also like the Hubscovery application. A simple search interface for Github.