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Isn't the title a touch sensationalist? Google did not go "offline": it was briefly unavailable for a relatively small number of networks.
by jemfinch 14y ago
Isn't the title a touch sensationalist? Google did not go "offline": it was briefly unavailable for a relatively small number of networks.
- ColinWright 14y agoYou can't win. If you quote the title given, people complain. If you change it to something more accurate, the mods change it back, and then people complain anyway.
- jemfinch 14y agoYes; to be clear, I was complaining about the author's original title, not the submission title.
- noselasd 14y agoFor the people affected, google was for all purposes "offline". If the estimate of 3–5% of the internet population is correct, that's a lot of people.
- jemfinch 14y agoI think that if 3-5% of the Internet population suddenly stopped querying Google, Google would have noticed before CloudFlare.
- noselasd 14y agoThere weren't any claims that Google were unaware of this. And when things happen at this level, resolving it in 27 minutes can only be done when there's direct contact between people that are able to do anything about it.