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Regardless of whether this includes real people or not, that's still quite a bit of load that they're able to handle. Have other services like Google or YouTub
by smaili 11y ago
Regardless of whether this includes real people or not, that's still quite a bit of load that they're able to handle.
Have other services like Google or YouTube reached this milestone as well or is this an overall first for any site?
- phn 11y agoWithout absolutely nothing to base myself on, I'd guess Google has higher usage. Does anyone have any quick data at hand on this? EDIT: By usage I mean what's referenced on the article, number of unique people using the page.
- nkozyra 11y agoNot to be pedantic, but this isn't really about usage so much as unique humans. I think the fact that 1B separate human beings utilized the service is more astounding than, say, number of page views or requests.
- rev_bird 11y agoI'm having trouble figuring out which would be a bigger accomplishment -- 1 billion on Facebook's platform or Google's. I'd imagine the average Facebook user (viewing/uploading photos and video, multimedia ads, pages with a zillion pieces of dynamic content, etc.) has heavier responses, but Google needs to do more legwork to put together the comparatively light response to a regular old web search.
- nkozyra 11y agoIt's probably harder to quantify "people" with those services since they're not inherently tied to a single account. Given YouTube has long exceeded 5B pvs a day, I suspect they've come close if not surpassed it in a single day.
- magicalist 11y agoConsidering Android and Chrome have exceeded a billion users each (e.g. [1]), just default search page alone should guarantee that, let alone people who use google search in other browsers, youtube, google maps, gmail etc [1] http://venturebeat.com/2015/05/28/google-chrome-now-has-over-1-billion-users/ http://venturebeat.com/2015/05/28/google-chrome-now-has-over...