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Since I buy ads on Google to my site I would argue it’s representative of Google’s traffic. But nice theory.
by geocar 2y ago
Since I buy ads on Google to my site I would argue it’s representative of Google’s traffic.
But nice theory.
- withinboredom 2y agoIt's not. Think about what you search for on your mobile, while out or traveling, and what you search for on desktop/wifi. They are vastly different. Your traffic is not representative of the majority of searches.
- geocar 2y agoI'm sure the majority of searches are for "google" and "facebook" and you're right in a way: I'm not interested in those users. I'm only interested in searches that advertisers are interested in, but this is also where Google gets their revenue from, so we are aligned with which users we want to prioritise, so I do not understand who you possibly think QUIC is for if not Google's ad business?
- withinboredom 2y agoThat's literally what I said; the entire protocol is engineered for google. Not for everyone else. 99.99% of websites out there do not need it.
- suprjami 2y agoNo. Google traffic is the Google Search page, Gmail, GSuite like Drive and Meet, and YouTube. You probably aren't hosting those.
- geocar 2y agoGoogle sells that traffic to me: I'm buying ads from the Google Search Page and from YouTube and from ads Google puts anywhere else, so it is Google's traffic. If google can't serve them an ad, they don't care about them, so QUIC isn't for them, so in order for QUIC to make business-sense to google it has to help them serve more ads. The theory is if QUIC helped anyone out, Google (being huge) would be able to sell more ads to me if I use QUIC as well. In reality, they are able to sell me more ads when I turn off QUIC, which means this theory cannot be true.