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Who relies on google exactly, other than advertisers? It works really well, but, if it fails... there's plenty waiting right there to take it's place.
by debaserab2 10y ago
Who relies on google exactly, other than advertisers?
It works really well, but, if it fails... there's plenty waiting right there to take it's place.
- vetinari 10y agoJust this Tuesday I could observe, what happens when Google is down (their routers were throwing away packets from Prague peering). So, without further ado: - obviously, services like Search, Youtube, Gmail are unavailable. That includes searching from the address bar in your browser ;) - people, who have their DNS set to 8.8.8.8 should reconsider their settings, - too many web pages use assets hosted on Google CDN, including analytics or fonts, and when unavailable, the pages will load very slowly, waiting for timeouts from CDN. - Android phones will say, that Internet is unavailable, even if it is. Otherwise, everything is fine.
- TomMarius 10y agoAlso anything that uses Recaptcha was mostly unusable, including government services.