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I think a Google search outage would be a spectacular train wreck. Imagine if Google's search was compromised in such a way as to be has bad as the Sony PSN ne
by djsumdog 8y ago
I think a Google search outage would be a spectacular train wreck.
Imagine if Google's search was compromised in such a way as to be has bad as the Sony PSN network hack of ..2011? Imagine not having Google search for several weeks. Bing/DuckDuckGo/Yahoo would struggle just to keep up and people would immediately realize their dependence on the big G.
- lawl 8y ago> I think a Google search outage would be a spectacular train wreck. I'd argue that a youtube outage is worse. If google search is out, you can just use duckduckgo. If you want to watch a video on youtube, you're SOL. This is speaking from experience with blacklisting both google.com and youtube.com in my hosts file. I was doing fine with blacklisting google, but couldn't handle blacklisting youtube. Try it yourself if you don't believe me.
- qwertay 8y agoYoutube is mostly idle entertainment though so an hour of no youtube is not the end of the world but people rely on search engines to get stuff done.