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Noticed it was down for about 2 minutes, but up again. As with any big outage, I wonder how much money was lost in those 2 minutes...
by jameshe 4y ago
Noticed it was down for about 2 minutes, but up again. As with any big outage, I wonder how much money was lost in those 2 minutes...
- russellbeattie 4y agoOK, so in round numbers, Google makes roughly $65 billion in profit per quarter. Dividing by 90, is around $722 million per day, which is roughly $200,000 per second. 2 minutes is quite the expensive fuckup.
- game-of-throws 4y agoI'd use revenue instead of profit, since their expenses don't disappear just because the site is down. If Google is walking down the street and stops to pick up a million dollar bill, it actually loses money.
- Aperocky 4y agoBut do they actually cough up 2 minutes worth of profit because they were down for 2 minutes?
- xhrpost 4y agoI think you're looking at revenue. Year end 2021 was $257,637M, divide by 4 = $64.4B per quarter. Net income was $76B or about $19B per quarter. https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2021Q4_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf?cache=d72fc76 https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2021Q4_alphabet_earnings...
- russellbeattie 4y agoI'm so confused. I honestly think we said the same thing. But I'll go with whatever. It wasn't really a serious point.
- quickthrower2 4y agoExpensive for you, but for Google it is nothing. A bug in their Ad placement stack would cost more.
- jeffbee 4y agoGoogle ads outages often have positive revenue impact because with the quality systems down or impaired they may briefly serve tons of junk that pays a lot but users hate.
- quickthrower2 4y agoSlowly mix in 12oz of OKR obsession, some salt, and you have a recipe for low quality ads, fairly often.