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The 3 most important things I learned from Google (part 3)

• tzs 16y ago
  > Traffic served by Google doubled every single month for the entire five years (1999-2004) that I was there. I do not believe this is true.
  • papaf 16y ago
    For illustration, if google had a single hit in the first month of 1999: monthly traffic 5 years later = 2^59 hits Which is the equivalent of every person in the world using google 83 million times that month.
  • Umalu 16y ago
    I too think this cannot be true. If Google had 1 hit in his first month, and traffic doubled every month for the 5 years he was there, Google would have had 576,460,752,303,423,000 hits in his last month.
    • cdavid 16y ago
      he mentions traffic, which is slightly different than hits, but I agree this seems implausible nonetheless.
  • tristanperry 16y ago
    Perhaps it was meant to say "every single year"? Since I agree that a 2x increase per month would be next to impossible. Per year would see a 2^5 = 32-fold increase from '99-'04 though, which would seem plausible. So I'm going for this line being a typo, with year not month being meant.
  • shawnps 16y ago
    I left a comment asking for him to reiterate on that part, let's see what he says.